now oun Own Tokyo, Dee. 3. dave. yet outgrown' its War Offco doesn't seem to interfering in questions Giplomacy, according to seathing criticiays appearing in some of the more outspoken of the Japanese papers, It has' been an old game (of Japan's soldiers to forestall the Foreign Office in laying, down 'Japan's foreign policy, especially {n regard to China, and placing the proper organ for' the conduct of uch affairs in very embarrassing There wore several instances of this in the past, There was, for instance, the Chientao affair, when, because of criticisms of high-hand-military methods by. Japan's soldiers in Chinese territory, involving some horrid killing—whether militarily justifiable or not is beside the question here—of Chinese and Koreans, Colonel Mizumachi, of the War Office, acting quite independently, sent what practically amounted to an ultimatum to the missionaries and other foreigners there to shut up or get out, Then, there was the dramatic "escape" of Little Hsu in 1921. from the Japanese Legation in Peking, which was afterwards proved to' have been done by "Little important role in China's recent war, it was not his fault, nor that of the Japanese military clique. Both these "incidents were clear meddling in China's domestic affairs and placed the Foreign Office in very awkward positions.
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