The Potent Influence in North On Sunday, a representative from the Candy and Sugar Dealers} Association interviewed the Japanese candy firms here with a view to negotiating for the cessation of orders for Japanese candies in compliance with the order of the Anti-'Japanese Atrocities Committee. It was reported that the Japanese merchants were strongly insistent upon strict adherence to contracts and that, therefore, no definite settlement was reached. The candy dealers accordingly wrote to the AntiJapanese Committee asking for instructions.
London, June 5.
"The strange interlude around Peking reflects the influence of strongly-repewed Japanese activity in North China, felt equally by the Northerners and Southerners," declares the "Times" in the course] of a leader to-day.
The Japanese, the paper continues, are asserting absolute neutrality. They realize that their intervention for the protection of their nationals at Tsinan may have delayed the! Nationalist advance. To counterbalance this they have insisted on the orderly retirement of Chang" Tso-lin from Peking. Thus the Japanese Government has declared itself involuntarily perhaps, almost by} force of cireumstances—the—most powerful arbiter of the issues'of the Ghinese ci The mere evidence that the Japanese are capable of
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