The Japanese Government is then urged to note carefully the attitu of Great Britain and of America and shape its course accordingly.
"The former of those Powers. is Inclined to be severe; the other intends to be generous—even to a fault. Japan should act on her own initiative," the papers advise, "retraining scrupulously from following the others."
In short, the papers aver, that Japan's attitude should err neither lo of generosity nor on that of severity. "She should use spe-to follow @ right and independent course, without imperilling concert of action, and endeavour at the same time to harmonize the two extreme views 40 that the deliberations may progress favourbly for China.
"It Japan shows herself ready to follow the Anglo-Saxon lead again, then will Sino-Japanese relations deteriorate =further. Japan now stands at the cross-roads in her with China, At the pre-dis ear; lukewarm, short-sighted Sent momentous juncture she must and subservient attitude she has taken in the past if favour of an independent, thorough' going and far-
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