Lord Lothian's Letter to "The Times"
London, Feb. 18.
"Japan wants to tear up and step] over the treaties and the present collective system in the Far' East," Lord Lothian writes this morning in "The Times" in commenting on Japanese policy in China, Maj-Gen. Dothara "1 do not think there is any doubt." he goss on, "that Japan wants to put the world in the face of a fait compli in China analogous to that accomplished in Manchuria, "There of course, rib question of -war, Which strengthens the Japanese posi-
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