The situation.of course gives the Japanese ample warrant for moving troops into Eastern Manchuria if they want to. take advantages of it. "In demanding the natural tion of the Koreans, the Chinese authorities admit that they are not under Chinese protection and, if they are not Chinese, it must be sumed that they are Japanese jects and are entitled to Japanese protection, For several years past there have been Japanese troops in police uniforms throughout the Chientao district, where the Koreans are thickest and to this aren the Japanese have ready access [while the Chinese have not, The largest Japanese garrison in Korea is at Narami on the Tumen River, within Chientao district, with "Hunchun fas its metropolis, 85 per cent, of the population is Korean, Large numbers are also settled along the north bank of the Yalu River and in the South Manchuria Railway zon Until very recently the majority of these colonies refused to ack-knowledge that they were Japanese subjects and sought Chinese citizenship, which the Chinese authorities were, for reasons that are obscure, very reluctant to extend to them. Presumably the Chinese thought that in taking the Koreans under their flag they might give offence to Japan, and that if a revolutionary movement developed among these naturalized Koreans in sympathy with such a movement in Korea, they would be responsible to Japan' for the good behaviour of masses of folk whom they could not control.
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