A further statement relative to the figure it has reached draws attention to Earl Baldwin's fund for Jewish refugees, which has now reached the total of £374,334, and that pa cularly from the local point of view. It has been stated that the funds for dealing with the problem created by the arrival of some of these refugees from Central Europe in Shanghai, and the knowledge that more are to be expected, must naturally give rise to some anxiety regarding the amount of money likely to be available for their care. It is stated that local contributions have been by no m meagre, but it is clear that the monthly outlay for the care of these unfortunate people represents a considerable sum. In the circumstances it may be permitted to suggest that Earl Baldwin's fund is something to which those responsible locally for caring for the refugees might with advantage look. The problem presented in Shanghai by these refugees is part of the whole problem which has arisen, and it is possible that this will be the view of those responsible for administering Earl Baldwin's fund. At least it ought to be, and if application has not already been made to it for assistance one should certainly be forwarded. The grant of a small sum from the home fund as compared with its present total would be of inestimable advantage in relieving a situation locally which gives rise to aux As matters stand it is impossible to prevent more of these refugees arriving. in Shanghai and it is doubtful whether in all the circumstances such a prohibition would be desirable, but that being the case, it is also desirable that outside istence should be available for taking care of them when they do arrive. The sum total of misery in Shang-Bai has been indeed great these last twenty months. Fortunately it has not succeeded in making Shanghai callous to the needs of others, though it must be emphasized that the limits of Shanghai's charity are in danger of being soon reached.
Shanghai, the continued closing of the Yangtze,—for reasons of "military necessity"—while the Japanese trade position is being rapidly consolidated along its course. So also are the establishment of various monopolies designed in the end to wipe out all foreign competition in China, and exploit the Chinese in a manner which was not paralleled even in the worst days of alleged imperialistic exploitation, the control of the railways, and the denial of foreign rights regarding them, and finally the monopoliza-
The Fisheries Squabble The report that Mr. Naruhiko Nishi, Japanese Embassy Councillor at Toscow, told M. Litvinov, that the Soviet Government was guilty of a grave breach of faith by announcing their inten tion to auction the fishery lots on March 15, despite pan's request that present conditions should be maintained pending the arrival at a agreement, reads somewhat curiously' in view of all the facts. Japan contends that under the Treaty of Portsmouth certain of the fishery rights off the Siberian coast were definitely retion of other means of communication.
Tt [Served for her, but denies the application of the is idle in the face of these very obvious and lose dispute, though they are obviously covered. same document to other causes of Russo-Japan-disturbing facts for Mr. Arita to say that In the circumstances to speak of grave breaches the Open Door is not being closed, and that of faith is to indulge in the type of reproach vast fields for the enterprise of the other used so commonly between ce in kitchen Powers will still remain. Even if they were, utensils and will undoubtedly be read with much the very fact that Japan is seeking to ence ent. The position between the divert foreign activities into other channels countries still remains deadlocked, though ther have been efforts on the part of Japan to secure than those^which they followed prior to the a settlement very much along the lines of a outbreak of hostilities is in itself an infringe-total surrender on the part of the Kremlin. The ment of those very rights which Japan has Soviet Government since the Changkufeng in-promised and apparently still promises to cident of last year has developed an uncom-respect. It may be readily conceded that promising firmness, and at tħe present it would Mr. Arita has made a correct statement of appear that unless Japan meets her require-what his Government believes is happening, ments, no agreement relative to the fisheries will be reached. The Japanese have freely but if that is so, then the Government cannot be properly apprised of all that is being intimated their intention of enforcing what they consider to be their rights, and to fish irrespecdone by its officials on the spot in China, tive of whether an arrangement is reached or for the gulf between assurance and per-not, and with rather less than two months to go formance is not only exceptionally wide, but before the lots are auctioned it may be assumed up to the present shows no signs of narrow-that negotiations will proceed at a greater speed than they have up to the present. With regard ing. to the Treaty provisions it is a commonly ac-It need cause no surprise, therefore, if it cepted doctrine that a document breached with transpires that the Japanese reply to the regard to one of its provisions is breached with
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