the dramatic fulfilment of those threats with which the spokesman of the Foreign Office at Tokyo has made the world familiar. Generally would seem that the Japanese authorities regard the issue in Tientsin as the primary concern of the local military experts to settle. Apparent. ly there is a definite belief that General Vu Hsueh-chung's removal Paotingfu does not entirely fallin with the ideas of the Japanese authorities who. regard him as. unfavourably disposed toward them and would consequently prefer that he and not his headquarters should be removed. However that may be, it would probably be wise at present to assume that the whole affair mainly of local significance, although, unfortunately, that form of inter-retation has not always been satis. factory in the past. It will be ad mitted that the reported demonstration by Japanese troops outside General Yu's yamen sounds a little quaint. Still, it must be repeated that the Japanese diplomats are firm in their' pursuit of Sino-Japanese friendship and they have a right to) expect that their colleagues in the army will do nothing to hinder that eminently praiseworthy enterprise.
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