Referring to the Russian control of Outer Mongolia, Lord Poet asked whether Russia was really in an ag~ uressive mood. He suggested that Japan's fears were as much heredltary as real. One thing emerging, said, was that the aggressiveness the' Japanese venerals towards China was calculated to drive her into the hands of Russia, Lord Peel then described the remarkable progress. made in China during the last four years by the Nanking Government, and suggested that Japan could sec tire her markets in China by friendly agreement, Lord Newton, formerly "Assistant Under-Secretary, of State for Foreign AMfairs, spoke In support of Japan, The Japanese he said, had been badly treated by Europe for the lust forty years, He particular-Jy condemned the abrogation of the Anglo-Japanese "Alliance and the Mleadvised interference in trying to eject Japan from Manchuria." policy in China, namely, the Open Door and freedom of trade for every one.
'British's desire for more friendship with Japan had not been improved, Lord Stanhope proceeded, by recent incidents. Manchoukuo." he continued, had closed the door to British trade,' and there had been "unfortunate ineidents"—the ill-treatment of a British Indian and his wife at Changchun, and the trial: of two British soldiers at Peiping.
These incidents, he declared, made agreement more They could not afford to have incidents of that Kind if they wished to improve their friendship with Japan and reach an arrangement salisfactory to Britain, Japan and China, Britain's interest, Lord; Stanhope added, was that there should be a strong stable Chinese Government, and, if they could manage to obtain Japanese and American support, it would not only bene Britain and China, but perhaps Japan mostly, Whose trade with China was so vast, He did not believe that the time was ripe to call a conference under the auspices of the League, as Lord Marley had suggested—Reuter.
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