Another move credited to the new Seiyukai leader, which is essentially Japanese but shows that donnish jealously still pervades panese politics, is that General Tanaka will so work that Saghalien concessions shall not be worked by the Mitsubishi interests which belong to the family of which Premier Kato is a son-in-law. This, if the report be true, is a pure ease of clan and party rivalry. The press sarcastically remarks that, if General Tanaka can make his voie@ felt supreme in regard to the Saghalien concessions, then will Japan have to bear the brunt of a farther "Siberian Expedition." The allegation is that; as General Tanaka ras. the directing factor which saddled on the Japanese people an ignominious foreign expedition and jan adverse balance of about a thousand million yen, so will in this case too the concession be a fizzle cerned. out in so far as profits are con-
A new orientation in Japan's policy, especially vis-a-vis. Russia and Ching, is a virtual certainty. All the signs are existent and the nation is meving in that direction,
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