Tokyo, July 21 that native dress.. At a recent meeting Jof the Pan-Pscific Club, he explain-Jed why he does so. It was part of his "scheme, he said, for when he first came to Japan, he wanted to experience Japanese life and so wore only Japanese clothes, sat or the floor, slept on mats and ate [Japanese food.
Dr. Start was extremely vexed The successes Soong, Mi inister, especially in regard to!
arrangements he has concluded in America and Europe, are caus. ing considerable concern to the Japanese authorities, according to thatthe loans' Mr, Soong negoing for will eventually be spent for. military purposes and that, from" this point. of view, the! Branting of loans to China by for-Cign nations tends. to disturb the pence of "the. Far Bast, Almost without any "exception, the papers here declare that Count Uchida, the psychology that land may Jover the increased number of Japa-develop, and thinks that Mr. Ho-yard has not, propery appreciated nese—men a5 well as, women who wear European clothes. "wi FWe do not. respect the United you abandon your beautiful dress for something so ugly?" he asked States because she has a. powerful Jand proceeded to say that the he writes. "Even if America 'Prince Albert," for instance, was not. possess a single modern never intended' for thick-set people battleship, yet. we would. not hold Jor low stature. When he asked her in contempt, Similarly, it is JJapanese why they changed _to not in the nature of the Japanese European clothes, the invariable 0 kowtow to anyone even if that reply he received was that European were cheaper. "Yes, they Mr. Howard, yhinkingg that look cheap," was' his comment. America with a big fleet will be "Once at a recent Chrysanthemum able to restrain Japan, does not un-Party (one of the big social funcderstand Japanese psychology." {tions of Japan) Tsaw men in Prince Ending by saying that' Japan|Albert coats. of the vintage of Foreign. Minister, -has issued' in structions to the Japanese ambassa dors. in' the principal counties Europe ard to the. Japane' at Washlagton suggesting tat they to bring Het, political "parties, lwsiwese Venders"an financial geneps abro% the dangers inherent Tapan believes that a. good. portion the money will be employed the purchase of munitions of war with which, "to oppose. Japan's Fait accompli as regards Manchou-feo."
"Tapanese envoys in foreign lant, according to the "Osaka Mainichi. have also been told to. explain. to Governments aprond that, 1¢ China uses these loans for opposing Japan ea the continent, "Japan ix deter: fined to" deal" drastically with Ghing. just as she did in: Manchuria fand-at Shanghaly" while parties. at= fording China such financial assis: tance wil beheld. "as partly" Fes: ponsible for any recurrence of trot: Ble between Japan and China."
re Soong is here represented ax doing: hie utmost to obtain foreign fours "in order to misuse these by having "China embark on fresh Tuoaaures of, opposition to Japan eMIpsinuating that other nations are easing on China to attack peaceful Japan and her ward, Manchoukuo, the "Osaka Mainichi," which has fly developed." ultra-jing tendencies in so far ax China is concerned, remarks editorial "Barking dogs may never bite on their own account, but if siced' on may do a lot of damage. By xeling arms, sending war supplies, fnetings "China, the. Powers ranting loans and cajoling and
are. practically' saying: "Sie: emt Siccemi'." Whether the Touma be ostensibly for the purchase of American wheat or of British pro-duets, the bulk of the money will itself into Nanking' war Then a significant statement is
proceed south of the Yellow River, indulged in that Japan may have to even to the Yangtze, "We cannot rest until order, prevails in-China," it proceeds, "If nece sity presses, we may have to proceed south of the Yellow River and even to the Yangtze and these ancient and meandering rivers may have to mark the boundary between peace and strife, separating the barbaric and destitute regions of China from the civilised and prosperous areas of the Orient,"
America's Neglected Navy 2 The decision of the United States to build up her much-neglected fleet to treaty strength has evoked a furore of objections in the Japanese! press, publicists here holding that the Japanese navy is incapable of any gort or form of aggression, that it has never been used for this purpose and that its raison d'etre is merely to. protect Japan's coast:
ines and fo, act as her shield i The decision of the comme is interpreted as-an "open naval building. pro-
ind. unprovoked demonstration. agairist Japan" and as a "reality which Japan cannot close her eyes.
Mr. Teh best-known publicists here, dealing, with this matter, after saying that, compared with the United "States Sapan impoverished power, nevertheless. in the realm of self-defence the standard of wealth is not necessarily an. ap-Propriate yard-stick." "We cannot embark on huge naval construction," it quiet while America proposes
he says, "and even though it may jean ' very heavy burden for us fo compete with the United States, 'Ward'é statement that "once Japan jes bat America intends to bultd fleet up to the treaty quota—Frid' beyond' if' the: world' wants does not desire a naval race as she] 1868." ig well aware of her limitations, Mr. formal;;|Tokutomi declares that all" thelelothes, Dr. Start, with his tall issues that have cropped up between stature, is naturally' very conspicu-Japan and the United States during ly missionary friends sey 1 the past decade have been due to fanese dress in order to be American initiative. "The present us, but when I started do-aval question," he says, "is merely ing s0 in. 1908, T wax not at all con-another. spicuous,"" he said. "In a Japanese ord Clive's Impressions jerowd then, nobody would know' that a foreigner had passed. To-day In gilded tutelage, Lord Clive, if T go to a Jo said {0 have come to the Far East find only two or three of the crowd as a special correspondent for the in native garb—and I am one of London. "Mor Phas trae them. If this keeps on, T expect yelled the breadth of Tong enough to be the last ma "Manchoukuo," and is now on his Journey back' home, "He was acalive who always wears Japanese companied during his tour of the new state" by Mr. Flemi Royeott of Sndia special, correspondent Times," who travelled under the Tokyo, July 21 same auspices.
The Japanese press continues to Jof two months of this vast area Jdevote "considerable space to. the! Ted him to be "firmly con ced of] present and future aspects of the what he had always thought to be Jcommereial situation between Iedia the. proper situation." jand Japan. Ever since India an-in Mukd a correspondent of nounced her determination to put a the "Asahi, he declared (if the definite stop to the dumping of, "Asahi"
message ix to be credited) Jeheap ad shoddy made-in-Japan. that he was most favourably im-Jgoods, the Japanese began to see. pressed with " the conditions that country, so useful and even Manchuokuo and that" he thoughe|Necessary for Japan from a com-the "operations of the Japanese ry cleaning up the bandits] constituted an achievement of which, anyone could be proud,"
He further represented as having said that, everywhere the Japanese troops the inhabitants of Manchuri I point of view, in a different devoid of any logic or truth, such To the belted earl tyranny"" of Chang Hsueh: also credited quite a fowl story. At a certain hamlet in the back of beyond of "Manchoukuo, eons pgs by uch me Clive came across it appears that Lord japanese soldier anda Chinese sth e eel Late What was obviously' dispute ing note than interested, he made tives to India to "feel the pulse of discovered that the Japanese soldier wanted fowl and Sting Hat, Mba insisted on paying for it, but, the: native refused to take any. filthy geographical and historical data lucre from his liberators and wanted the soldier ce wecept the fed as a ney ie ea eel token of his gratitude in liberating him and his ilk from serfdom and Sri nae Seite "play up" these two rs.
Tord Clive sees a brill future for Manchoukuo and, acceding, to the same "Asahi" dispatch, s0 does Best acara th, Mr, Fleming. Both, however, think that a period of at least fifteen fit, a years will have to elapse before economic construction bbe com-Something of 'a blow "to" many pleted.
Jiapanese to learn that, far from Trade Mark Piracy mention is made of the Japan-they please, the ese trader's inherent lack of cou. {Mdian Government actually places mercial morality—as-evinced by hia rely Pee, Sal tradematka, of, con-lend thet Sta and_of goods not Rd Osaka "Mainichi," up to, sample—the general tewicncy india, hee "not "only aha binge here is to set the esm) ints down to "jealously" of the made by the Japanese.
Not s0 ye long ngo, Crosse & Blackwell dis" covered extensive pirating of their trade-marks and inferior manufactures represented to be the products of this reputable Arr At the instance of representatives of brands of whiskey and brandy, the Police have Just taken into custody a number of persons who the brands imitated, and extensively "Amon
sold to the cheap bars and. cafes with which the. princi pal cities of Japan are pock-market are Johny ker, King of Kings, Black and White and Hennessy.
"The bottles, Inbels, corks and ork seals were. all cleverly imitated, but the contents, on examination, proved to be of a highly-explosive nature, Walker, for instance, sold wholesale at 60 sen per quart, cafes retailing this 70 sen per small glass have been found to have made as much as Yen 12 to Yen 50 per bottle.
Papers in Japan's commercial me-tropalls, but are also. the largest dailies in the entire country, each [journal having a daily fof close upon a million.
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