4 Nov. 25.
In the long but intensely interesting analysis of China's present political situation by "G@, Gramada"' which we publish to-day, one -point is likely to attract special notice. By well-informed Chinese, he says, it is held that Japan knows she will presently have to fight Bolshevik Russia; that she is organizing in north" China accordingly; and that, conscious of the popularity she. would acquire in Kurope as a champion against the detested Soviet, she expects to realize her ambitions in north China during the war without interference from abroad. Half-of this theory we may dismiss as the normal Chinese suspicion" of Japan and the inability to recognize the growing strength of the liberal and business elements in her political life.-
But that Japan may in the near future be forced into armed conflict-with the Reds in Siberia, is possibility very near to the line of things probable. Events in Siberia have, perhaps, not been
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