July 19.
We print to-day a further instulment of Japanese press views of the proposed Far Eastern Conference. They are melancholy reading. With but two they show a total mab any view beyond interest—their own or some other nation's. Only the ''Hochi'? sees in the conference a chance to assure the Powers that Japan is ready to join them in whatever may be requisite for the. world's peace. The others are chiefly taken up with curiosity as to what America has to gain by the conference: while later quotations (to-day's were brought by mail) betray anxieties as to what Japan may have to lose. Perhaps in this spirit the ''Asahi'' evolved its idea that Japan and China should combine to demand at the conference a world-wide ''open door," while the 'Yomiuri' speaks of the desirability of a preliminary agreement with China—which suggests an attempt to dictate to her what her delegates shall say at Washington.
We are not id that the "North-China Daily News' wi!! he accused of hostility to Japan and her people, however much it may have demurred in recent years to the policy fastened upon them by the faction in, power and the importance of the projected conference calls for plain
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