"Japan expects that the Customs conference will strictly confine itself to the limitations imposed by the Washington conference as re-ards China," Marquis Komura told your correspondent to-day, "The Japanese delegates will not be empowered to enlarge the scope of the question of enlargement of the scope of the conference, Japan will be willing to listen to China's view: point and to discuss the matter.
"The first object Japan has in entering this customs conference is to help China to put her finances into some semblance of order; while her second object is to enable China to settle all her foreign toa which are at present unconsolidated, in order to relieve the Chinese from the heavy burden of interest that would otherwise undoubtedly "Japan will take every care to avoid even the appearance of an form of intervention, not only as regards the foreign contr: of the yallways, but also in every other respect. She will not consent to ge any further than to discuss and make what redress is right in ree gard to the control of the customs.
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