The author in an interesting chapter dei with the large number of] is outrages and breaches of treat Which can be alleged against Chi ind, necessarily, the government responsible for its control. The list is fa significant one, but not so great as thay which the Japanese prepared in 109 for submission to the League of Nations. There is no doubt about it hat the Japanese had very strong grounds for bitter complaint against the Chinese, but then that might be said of practically any country whose nationals were endeavouring to carry on business with China, When he comes to the question of the necessity for providing territory, in. which Japanese population could expand, the case appears on the face of it to be a good one. But it was stated when Japan embarked upon her dventure in Manchuria in 1931 that that territory was required for the purposes of Japanese colonization. It is true that a certain amount fof such colonization has been carried out during the past seven: years, but it has not proceeded on a scale, up, the present, calculated to justify even this somewhat selfish exon: for the rape of Manchuria,
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