The organization of the Chinese Consortium Conference has been completed. The American, Britich, French and Japanese delegates are due to meet here on October 11. The two Japanese representatives have already arrived. The Amer-jean group comprises 37 financial houses. The Conference will probably consider applications from bankers of other nationalities seeking for membership of the Consortum. It wilh probably also consider the questions of Chinese cur rency reform and railway matters.—Reuter.
Tokio, Oct. 6
The "Laisho Nichi Nichi" quotes Count Uchida, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, as declaring that the absence of central figure in China is preventing the unification of that country and that he wishes there were such a man with whom Japan and the other Powers could deal. Count Uchida is reported to have said that, he feared that an attempt by the Powers in the present circumstances to help towards unification of China would "only worsen a situation which is already endangering the peace of the Far East." Japan's policy, Count Uchida is stated to have added, is one of strict neutrality and noninterference in China's domestic political strife. Japan is refraining from making loans to China in order not to help to protract the struggle of internal forces, The Minister considers that the Consortium Joans may be used for military and political besides industrial purposes, but he is bf the opinion that China should negotiate her own, political loans, reserving the Consortium loans for productive purposes and the "development of her natural resources. Reuter.
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