Foreign Minister Assailed on China Policy: Not Quite a Pitched Battle From Gur Qun Correspoutent, Tokio, June 23
One of the aftermaths of 1 Chinese agitation against was the staging of an all bue tic encounter in the offidia, sidence of Count Uchida, ter of Foreign Affairs 6: Japanese Empire, _betweei and one of the leading mwvz bers of the Kenseikai, or Opposition, party. The affair, naturally, has been mide much of by the Japanese press. especially as Count Uchida, rightly or otherwise, is severely blamed by the Fourth Estate for the growing seriousness of Sino-Japanese relations.
Mr. Mochizuki, a leading parliamentarian of the Opposition, called on the Foreign Minister by appointment and quizzed him with regard to the present con-orien of Japanese commerce in thine. After the formal banalities that precede official or semi-official conversations—_ the world over—and which, by the way, are stretched to a point of ludicrousness in Japan sometimes—and which, by the way, are stretched to a point of ludicrousness in Japan sometimes—Mr. Mochizuki launched into a harangue, the upshot of which was that the vacillating policy of Count Uchida tended to encourage the Chinese in their present anti-Japanese attitude and that a show of force would be the most effective way to bring China to her senses and make her respect the rights of nations to trade without being interfered with by mobs of schoolboys and coolies. The Foreign Minister, beyond deploring the unfortunate stage of the relations between the two peoples, diplomatically refused to say more, whereupon Mr. Mochizuki asked whether the Japanese Government had taken positive steps to see that foreign property ang lives would be given adequate protection by the Chinse authorities. Count Uchida replied in the affirmative, and Mr. Mochiyuki begged the privilege of another question, this being whether the Foreign Minister did not hold the opinion that the yielding diplomacy of Japan. in recent years has encouraged the equtempt in which the Chinese generally hold j Japan. Count Uchida replied that this depended on the point of view of each individual. For his part, he declared, he felt that the change in Japan's attitude towards China had the effect of improving, Japan's position in Europe an the United States, with the result that those Powers were now very, sympathetically inclined towards Japan. Mr. Mochizuki, however, insisted that, however (that might be, the series of con-
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