All Favour of Protection by Peaceful Means Osaka, May 11.
Leading financiers and business men here fully endorse the despatch of Japanese troops to Shantung a3 Jong as the purpose is confined to Protection of their nationals and. the safeguarding of transportation by the Shantung railway as out-ined in the statement by Baron Tanaka, They desire ample precautionary measures and therefore approve the dispatch of destroyers and cruisers to the Yangtze. However, they maintain, reparations must be secured by peaceful means and through diplomatic channels, not at the point of the bayonet.
They express satisfaction at the ign press comments in Shang-as well as in the world's prin-
Japan.
They regret the exchange fluctua tions but are confident that it is merely a temporary state of because the intrinsic po: sound and already there has-been sharp recovery.
There has been animation in freightage and'charterage at Kobe owing to the elimination of con siderable tonnage from the market for the purpose of transportation of troops and supplies—Reuter,
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