JAPAN AND CHINA

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 1 September 1919, Page 5

JAPAN AND CHINA

JAPANESE BANKER'S VIEWS

' BY CABLE—PBES3 ASSOCIATION-^COPYSIGHT / J LONDON, Aug. 29. The New York Times* Washington • correspondent states that, according to v -advices from Tokio, Yoko ■ Ekmaiguchi, president of a prominent Japanese toahk,". has issued a statement- that the financial ooueortiuin: will not only •threaten 'the independence of China, ■bxib -wiill meaii her deatih. wlt i& not .-'advisable uhat, Japan should participate in joint loans at the cost of our right • of •■ priority already acquired in > China. We must s^ize the opportunity for pro- ; aiiotijig the common interests of China . and: Japan for the sale© of the peace of the Far Bast." . ;Hamaguehi, added: "England wants - railroads built in southern China. Japan wants' rail ways in northern China England lacks funds and is hardly in a to exercise righfe of priority in •China." ; .