London, Sept. 8.
The Japanese blockade of the China coast has been under the active consideration of the British Government, which now feels assured that Japan does not intend to interfere with British shipping.
The "Financial Times," giving pro~ minence to an article on the British business stake in China, says that, if from fear of complications with Japan, "we acquiesce in the institution of a thoroughgoing blockade, we go a long way towards ensuring China's administrative disorganization.
What Japan, as represented by her soldiers and industrialists, wants, the journal declares, is a China perpetually ín the Japanese leading strings, subserving Japan's strategic economic conceptions and producing "cash crops" to be expended upon the widest possible range of cheap Japanese goods.—Reuter.
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