The Japanese in Manchuria are naturally interested in the elections at-home and all are awaiting the outcome with excitement. The majority of the Japanese in the Three Eastern Provinces stand for 4 "sane, dignified policy" vis-a-vis of China, and their sympathy with the Tanaka government; however, not a few hold out for the "non-interference" platform of the previous cabinet. "It is in keeping with the anomalous conditions pre-wailing in China," commented a Japanese critic, "that the oldest country in the world is the least efficient, and the oldest civilization Ithe least suitable, hence there is nothing strange in younger ni giving China the guiding Japanese of this class emphatically state that "all the dissertations of armchair critics to the contrary not withstanding, what ig needed in the relations between the Powers and China to-day is a firm but not unfriendly attitude towards the Chinese, but in no case should concessions be granted to China which the is not educated enough to apappreciate."
On the other hand, there are those who affirm that China being the property of the Chinese, the latter should be allowed to do with it just as they wish. This class of are sincerely considering its "positive. policy" to be the source of danger to the peace of the Far Bast.
More Desertions of Heilungkiang Soldiers Cases of further desertions by Heilungkiang soldiers s0 as to joi the bandit gangs are again reported. The other day 60 soldiers belonging to General Wu's army and who, with others, were engaged in the suppression of the "Big Sword" movement, escaped from their barracks, fully equipped, after binding up several officers. The spokes-Jman told the officers that all wrong, the Big Swords are Thandits at all, and-you have all misrepresented the real facts of the sense." He proceeded to add that ithe men were all quite sick of poaing as altruists when they Zot, hence it, would be "more e Sactory to shed all hypocrisy and
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