Mar. 9.
Two contributions published today, which may conveniently be grouped together under the above heading, call for some further comment. In the first place, correspondent comes strongly to the charge on the subject of the Japanese demands of China, Now whether Japan has kept ten of these demands up her sleeve "'and those the most serious", in communicating the subject matter of her negotiations with China to the Powers, is best known to herself and China. What, however, we would again emphasize is that if Japan has indeed kept back ten requests, it means that the 1¢- maining eleven are all she proposes to press, certainly all about which China need trouble herself. We are discussing the question as a matter of business only, without any admixture of the natural feelings of an Ally who finds it impossible to believe that her partner would play her the dirty trick attributed to Japan. And as a matter' of business our correspondent to-day discusses the question. But when he raises certain questions, which from the business standpoint become at once inevitable, we do not think he admits readily enough the decided negative for which those questions appear to call.
Onur correspondent tells us that Japanese statesmen have deliberately deceived four great Powers as to the objects nearest their heart, regardless of the fact ''that in negotiating with China separa-rely so as to reap from her the benefits of the war with Germany ginal f
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