Although Manchuria holds the Predominant position in newspaper views and in public opinion, yet far-seeing Japanese view with apprehension the manner in which the Soviet is gradually making of outpost for Bolshevik.
in th Fa regarded here as being of great strategical importance, as being one of the important keys to China Proper and, when developed and linked up by modern roads, railways and that newest means of communication, the aeroplane, will prove to be of the utmost. im-Portance to Russia in her renewed, march Orient-wards for a place in the Far Eastern sun, Open Fears While trying to discount the fears openly expressed by some—for instance by that sober and farseeing Japanese statesman, Count Soyejima—the papers" and periodicals nevertheless give away, the show to some extent by, requesting that the Japanese, Government take such steps as may tend to eliminate the growing estrangement between Russia and Japan, an estrangement thal has been growing in proportion it became evident that the Soviet is mot one whit less imperialistic than was the former Russin of the Tsars, The Japanese view is best grasped by quoting part of an editorial that recently appeared in. the powerful Tokyo daily. Says this paper:—
"It is futile and impossible to deny that the atmosphere pervading North Manchuria is not perfectly, Serene. Notwithstanding "her [previous pronouncements that she would relinquish all." privileges, which she secured In China during the Tsarist regime, Russia seems determined to retain and consolidate her political influence in Outer Mongolia and in North Manchuri and this attitude has caused her relations with China, who is bent on recovering her legitimate national rights, to be considerably vitiated,
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