"It is my personal opinion that Japan should have purchased Manchuria from China at a reasonable figure," said Mr. Ernest W. James, Chairman of the. Kobe and Osaka Foreign Chamber of Commerce, in an interview with a representative of the "North-China Daily News" on Sept. 20. Mr. James, who has spent several days in Shanghai, proposes leaving for Kobe this morning, "Inasmuch as Japan, on behalf of China, fought Russia for Manchuria, in' 1905, she has certain claims to consideration there, other than what she did in developing the country. The payments could have been spread over a period of 25 years, The present manner of handling the situation has been covered with too much camou-
"It has seemed to me that if it had been possible for Chinal and Russia to have recognised Manchukuo on the same day as Japan the @oves of peace would have settled quietly to an interrupted snooze over the Orient. But perhaps I had hoped for too much at this time. Japan and Manchukuo though, I
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