Tokyo, Sept, 14, It is learned from an authoritative source that Baron Shidehara, the Foreign Minister, speaking separately to the American Ambassador and to the Chinese Minister yesterday regarding the Chinese situation, declared emphatically that Japan intends to remain strictly neutral, though she will take proper steps to protect Japanese lives and interests if they are Jeopardized—Reuter. armies. Every advantage hasbeen taken of the foreigner's failure to teke care of himself, All flags have been fired upon, cold blooded murder has been committed over and over again by men in uniform without punishment of any sort, steamers have been commandeered at the point of the bayonet and made to serve the fancy of joy-riding soldiery and unwashed military nabobs transporting their harems, The cowardly Szechuanese have felt all along that their trade was worth while and that the nature of their country enabled them to harass the foreigner with impunity, so they deliberately took every advantage of the situation and have made themselves as poisonously obnoxious astonly a Chinese coolie can be when he thinks he can play the bully with safety.
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