Aug.
Plain and unvarnished is the tale told by the Inspector-Gener lof Customs in presenting China's view of the seizure of the Manchurian Customs. Earnest folk, who desire to see in Manchukuo Jan independent State acting in expression of the pent-up feelings of enraged Manchurians, twill no doubt display their customary ingenuity in exeludting the word "Japan" from the picture. They will find the task stern test of their credulity las they read Sir Frederick Maze's dispassionate and restrained despatch. They may, of course, derive comfort from the fact that, in addressing the Japanese Legation on the subject of the Jejection of Mr. Wallas and his Istaft from the Lungchingtsun Customs House, the Inspector-General makes no sort of protest. He merely asks for information, like Rose Dartle. He wants to know why the Japanese Military Authorities were represented, ably, no doubt, by the liocal_ Japanese Intelligence officer on that occasion. Major Hinouye, the officer concerned, waited, it is true, outside to keep the Japanese Adviser company' but, in view of the stirring scene enacted inside, it would be interesting to ascertain what considerations prompted the Japanese Military Authorities to send one of their staff to grace the proceedings, albeit on the wrong side ofa door. And, according to the report, it will be observed that the officer was left alone when the Japanese Jadviser was summoned to the presence to receive the appoint-Iment from which Mr. Wallas had the ecstasy of those professing to see in Manchukuo a young administration whose only faults fare self-will and a curious reluct tance to consider "the suscepti bilities of the Japanese authori ties, obsessed as the latter are by." an almost _unquenehable anxiety for the integrity of the Chinese Customs and the Javoidance of any action describ-fable as offending. international obligations. So, the spectacle of banking institutions running the risk of infringing ordinary usages international banking practice, at the bidding of the stern Manchukuo, is indeed distress ing. Assuredly any bank would repudiate the notion of obeying the dictates withholding ite clie from remission when mission had been. req the said client, Yel, if Sir Frederick Maze's report and the information—otherwise fayallable are correct, Customs funds, accumulating, before the forcible seizure. have Met been remitted to Shanghai, Could better proof be adduced lof the difficulties experienced by the Japanese in dealing with so headstrong an "faut terrible as that at Changchun? This doleful tale is all the more doleful because it is understood that the Manchukuo Administration is well-stocked with Japanese mentors. Japanese advisers have been attached to the various branches of the Government.
JApparently these adv Newchwang, even when Jed by military compan; made to wait in outer rooms and then summoned to conform meek-to the obligations imposed on [them by their hard task-masters.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.