Osaka, Sept. 16.
Mr, Darwin P. Kingsley, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, who visited Japan last May with the Vanderlip party, contributes along article to the Osaka "Mainichi" to-day. Mr. Kingsley says that his attitude, when speaking at San Francisco after the tour differed from his convictions when he delivered his speech at Osaka on May 10 and explains why.
"ST said at Osaka," Mr. Kingsley writes, "that believed that Japan would do justice in Shantung and that she would not follow a militaristie policy in Manchuria, Siberia and China. My visit to the other. side of the Yellow Sen, compelled me to modify my opinion ey at least. to suspend judgement.
"T have never been able to understand how Japan by the military conquest of Kiaochao got any better ttle to economic rights and privi-Jeges than she did to the sover-eighty of that section. We were told while in Japan that she would ultimately restore territorial sover-eighty to China but emphasis was always laid on the word territorial.'
"Té was always said that econ-amic rights and concessions must be discussed with China. I have never been able, therefore, to arrive at a clear conclusion ne to just what Japan intended to do. Having looked at the problem from the viewpoint of China and having felt Chinese reaction. I am now more than puzzled. Frankly I am in doubt whether Japan will ultimately do what seems to'uie justice in Shantung.
"T am also in doubt as_ to whether or not Japan will follow a militaristic policy in China, Mongolia, Manchuria and Siberia. She is certainly following that policy now. It has already cost her a great deal. It has cost her the friendship of every American and Englishman I met anywhere west of the Yellow Sea and brought her the implacable hatred of all Chinese. Against my natural feelings and preconceptions I was finally obliged to conclude that the uiilitaty elements in Japan are still clearly dominant. In other words Japan is still more the Japan of Prince Yamagata than that of Viscount Shibusawa and Viscount Kaneko."—Reuter,
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