Sir Robert Clive, in conversation with Mr. Mamoru." Shigemiteu, hat reinforced the denials previously made by Sir Frederick Leith-Ross land conveyed to Tokyo by Mr. Akira Ariyoshi.. The result is that Japanese Jdoubts appear to be dispelled. It is satisfactory that this process has been Jeffective, for the suspicious conjectures and amazing fantasies given Jcurrency during the last few days jindieated a state of bewilderment which required attention. No. great farm is done if the critics and doubt-Jers realize. that they have been grieviously astray in their calculations and fuct. 'Too often he is a farmer, and when crops need attention and' food {is comparatively plentiful he devotes all his attention to his business, but once the harvests are gathered in, jand there is in front of him Jong months of idleness he tums Yo cther pursuits, and the chiefest of these is banditry, The real solution of the whole problem is as much economical jag it is military, and it is to be ex-ceted that with the pro sperity of the new state, which it is not unreasonable to expect under the new regime, the tendency to indulge a wartae for the ako of lage wil be gradually reduced, That, however,
despite glowing reports to the con-beside the point "he tects that {rary the condition regarding banditry jin Manchoukuo is such as to require the employment of large numbers of po, extensive sambales to tog it, and though for the moment i mi be subdued there is mo very real guarantee that in the course of a few more months it will again be lifting lis very ugly head.
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