Sept. 2.
A well-balanced Reuter message from Tokyo supplies a helpful foundation on which to Jassess the various rumours rejeently afoot regarding Japanese intentions in China. During the past few weeks the breeding places of gossip have been alive with all the germs of uneasiness and tension, This has found reflection ina constant success sion of lugubrious prophecies, the fulfilment of which would imply a sad inability, either on lone side or the other, to profit by the lessons of the, recent past. During the week-end the cumulative effect of this rumourmongering, added to the emergence of the fatuous terrorist of jcampaign—if it can be so digniied—had given rise to distinctly apprehensive feeling. Fortunately, since the present week open there have been frank interchanges of opinion here between Japanese and Chinese representatives. The determination to keep the peace has been con-secreted anew and, especially in view of criticisms to which this journal has from time to time
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