Manchurian Trade

Hastings Standard, Volume X, Issue 5414, 29 January 1907, Page 4

Manchurian Trade

o Per United i'ress Assn.—Copyright). Received January 28, 11.80 p.m London, January 28 Mr McGlew, representative of a firm in China, who has resided at Kobo for 25 years, arrived here on a visit. He declares that the Japanese intend to exploit Corea and Manchuria, and that large numbers of the worst class of the I people are making their way thither. The consequence was that the Chinese were beginning to regard the nation generally with disfavour. The Japanese had already got as far north in Manchuria as Harbin, and were still working up. In Corea they were in bad odour with the natives, whom they were treating most unjustly, taking their lands and making inadequate compensation. At the present time there was no possibility of Australia doing any- I thing in the meat tiade, a3 the Japanese preferred the native trtiele. They would not even look at mutton. The general belief in Japan appeared to be that the country would before many years be again at war with Rus&ia. Preparations were being made accordingly. An enormous military depot covering 250 acres was in course of construction at Nagvya, between Kobe and Yokohama, and every arsenal in the country were working at high pressure, turning out arms and ammunition. Indeed, so great were the '• preparations that a stranger would imagine the country was actually engaged in active war. Reverting to Man:huiian affairs, Mr McGlew said that the higher class of ' Japanese'regretted the influx into Manj ckuria of the undesirable classes, and I hoped they would very soon be checked { by the Government.