Japan has formulated conerete measures to protect the lives and. interests of her nationals in all parts of China. Special attention is also being paid to railway construction' and a programme, that will be submitted to Mukden' shortly, has been' drawn up providing that' railway encroachment be avoided by both pan and China in South Manchu-'The details are not yet obtainable and full hope is expressed here that the Mukden authorities will agree to Japan's propositions.
'These measures were decided upon after a conference between repreatives of the South Manchuria Railway Department, the Foreign Ofice, the War Department and the Navy' Office, The conference decided to go ahead with the railway Dduilding programme Japan has already laid down in South Manchuxia, It further went on record that this should be done without hurting the susceptibilities of other Powers, but that Japan expects that neither China nor Russia project or Duild lines that would interfere with the railway programme already Inid down by Japan in South Manchuria,
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