The real crux of the difficulty continues to lie in the reimbursement of the coat of the war and the~e-sion of Saghalien. The new proposals regardidg the two above tangled skeins are generally said to be Japsn's, but I have rosso to believe that they are not Japan's-I hear that. some influential foreign sections, who they are I'am still unable to state, but whose advice the Japanese do not like to ignore, seem rather to disfavour the idea*of the monetary compensation, saying that Japan would not have fought to earn money.
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