Japanese Army Creating Political Entity At Expense of Chinese and Japanese People R, ¥. Suma from Tokyo paid us a Peiping. Nov. 25. isi. Having, in the course of his tour in China, given, 1 thi rik he said, some 40 odd infetviews, he had little new to tell us here. His attitude towards America would seem, however, to have undergone a marked change from that when he first arri red from the States.
We were told that there was no intention whatever of exclud~ in American trade from China; it merely happened that a war ws-going on and that in consequence conditions were somewhat abnormal.
In actual fact, he could best describe American-Japanese relations as similar to that of two lovers, and that, if at times the Americans did get a bit restive, the Japanese merely regarded this in the light of a lover's tiff, He himself during his short tour:
north had. been full imitation at the careful and pains take Tig manner in which the Japanese military authorities treated all Coreign interests. When a British corres: ponent asked whether his metaphor Dt an ardent love affair also applied to AnglovJapanese relations, Mr. Suma Tauuhed and admitted that the problem here was quite a different one And he showed noticeably less anxiety to soothe British susceptibilities. His different attitude in the Tatter ease is presumably {o be ascribed to the fact bhsr Britain hae no trade treaty" that Mill shortly have to be renewed. roto Sencha trid to nie.
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despite the speeches of 0. succession fro auher ies i noth Chin Fo of' Japanese premiers about. the srulatie policy of Japan. and despite the tat Inthe Japanese Press about the settlement of the China Problem, a JO were one indic. becomes plainer every day that north {Chinn i it entirely separate problem, Sha thay Ws rapidly approaching the Stns of an independent Dominion.
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