Their attitude, however, is not likely to hinder the Japanese in the long run from developing the conquered territory as long as they are sure of unlimited supplies of cheap labour and a sufficient number of persons for the more subordinate posts. That, anyhow, is what is taking place today in north China. The comparatively few Chinese of the educated classes who have thrown in their lot with the Japanese, the "puppets" as they are generally called, have nothing whatever to say in the development of their own country. They are merely figure-heads, who sit idly by looking on; the Japanese provide the ideas and the driving-power. Food for serious thought is provided by the statistics giving the numbers of Japanese employed in adviserships on railways and other communications, established fact, it seems very improbable that this will be allowed to interfere with the plans or the status of the north China regime. The north China army seems but little interested in Tokyo's scheme for a central government for the whole of China, At the very best, the position of north China in any such government would Ge a very loose and indeterminate one, Mr. Suma himself, although from Tokyo, and not a "Dominion," spokesman, in replying to questions on this subject said airily: "Of cour: there are all kinds of federal statu:
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