CHINA AND JAPAN.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 15 November 1913, Page 12

CHINA AND JAPAN.

"The Chinese Government has had the good sense verbally to notify the Japanese Legation that it acceded to all the, Japanese demands in connection with the recent incidents at Nanking, Hankow, and Yenchowfu," says' tite Pekin correspondent of The Times. "The demands included punishments, indemnities and apologies, the. principal of which involved the expression personally to the Japanese Consulate-General at Nankin of the regrets of Genera] Chang-shun and a demonstration by his troops for the same purpose .V "The whole incident is interesting as tending to discredit the view that the Japanese are only waiting for an opportunity to seize Chinese territory. It suggests that the present Japanese policy "towiii-ds China is unaggressi/e, tend that Japan recognises that her interests are best served by the preservation of peace in China and not by a chaotic condition of affairs by which trade is hampered. Though many Japanese, officials and others, recently assisted^ the revolutionary party, it does not necessarily follow that Japan defiles to promote disruption."