The statesmen, moreover, are afraid of jeopardizing the friendly relations of Japan with the United States and England at this time. They do not think Chinese friendship, because can never be sincere, is worth the price of inciting the suspicious and! HMevitl of America and England.
People abroad have the ides that Japen is being run by the army—even perhaps that Japanese foreign policy Eedictated by the military leaders, 'They should disabuse their minds of this fallacy. It was only while the oar of cannons was being heard over the Manchurian plains and Saangha', that the army had everything its own way. To-day the enorrious army and navy: budgets get. past the Dicer nat because the military run the country But because the vast_miurity of Japanese are convinced thi: a grave crisis confronts them, Only 1,000,000 People: Japan Dominates Trade Nanking, Mar. 14.
Dr. Jefferson D. H. Lamb, councillor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who has just returned from a trip to Lhasa, speaking at to-day's meet-Ing of the Nanking Rotary Club, said the common belief is that Tibet has population of from five to six million people, but, in reality, it has less than one million. One-ftth of its population consists of lamas. There, is little cultivated and arable land, and mineral resources are limited.
Japanese goods dominate the Lhasa market, with Indian and Nepalese goods next, and Chinese goods taking third oF fourth place. Some Buropean and Amerieah goods are- also found in Lhasa.—Reuter.
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