In the "Manchester Guardian" today, a leader on the Rajchman report points out that there is no question of assistance tp the Chinese army, and no question of financial May 9, Quarters connected with" the League of Nations hold that the hostility of the Japanese to technical collaboration with China was inapirfed by a desire to frustrate the consolidation of the republic, which would mean a death-blow to Japan's hopes of hegemony in the Far East, They assert that the Rajehmann Report, which is highly technical, contains nothing political, but th rationalization of the cotton and silk Industries and the execution of rigation schemes and. road-building programmes may bring about a restoration of Chinese prosperity. that would involve an element' of serious now remains to be seen what faction the Council of the League will take in regard to the report, believed that it will await the result of the examination of the advisory committee on Chinese affairs, which is due to meet on May 14,—Reuter,
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