The former Governor believes that the preceding Japanese Government was ready to settle the question of the military occupation of the outskirts of Peiping amicably, but that the present ministry obeys entirely the military party which would like tu dominate the State. It is this party which brought about the dissolution of the Diet last spring, he points out, and which was not inclined to bow before the significant verdict of the Japanese people fol-owing the elections of April 30, ud it is the military party which inspires Japanese diplomacy."
M. Varenne emphasizes, however s stronger now will encounter serious resistance in China "which can not be compared with several years He insists on the remarkable progress of the Chinese army. "of which the; Japanese have already had a bitter isto during the battles around Shanghai, Japan will find herself engaged now in a long, costly and difficult campaign. She will learn at great expense that one does not so easily crush a nation of more than 400,000,000 capable of sending.to the front in successive waves more than 2,000,000 men well versed in the art of war Writing irom the view. M. Varen ench point of declares that France has no anti-Japanese pre-Gilections, but better reasons te believe in the pacific intentions of China, which threatens nobody and is entirely engaged with her work of rehabilitation. That is what dir-acts our sympathy! Unless Japan realizes now, at last, that her present leaders are taking her into a dangerous adventure, perhaps a will restore her cool wisdom."—Havas.
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