Berlin, Jan, 18.
Japan's failure to break China's economic resistance by her blockade of the latter's coasts is stressed the magazine "Far East". which specializes in Asiatic matters, The Journal takes a pessimistic view concerning Japan's expansion In North China, "The first attempts by Japanese industrialists t6 obtain large quantities of coal and raw materials from North China nearly falled," the paper The magazine is of the opinion that Japan cannot develop her relations with North China without "injuring. the interests of other European parts hers in China. 'The only possibility [for the latter would "arise it Jap: had recourse fo the industrial countries of the Occident for' the Industriatization of North China, "In this case," the paper concluded, one must expect great changes in the structure and methods of trade, since Japan no doubt will extend her commercial legislation to North
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