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Show INCH ROADS PRESENTPH08LEM United Slates Proposition for Neutralization by Xo Means Eagerly Accepted. DIPLOMATS VIEW SUBJECT WITH ALARMING CONCERN Japan. Not Likely to Submit (o , Release of Advantages Once Gained. ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 0. The ussian foreign office has issued a statement embodying the memorandum of tho United Stales government bearing bear-ing on the neutralization of the Man-churian Man-churian railways. PARIS. Jan. !l. Although France favors fa-vors the preservation of the open door policy and Chinese sovereignty in Manchuria, Man-churia, it considers that tho issues raised by the American proposition to, neutralize the iManohuriau railroads primarily concern Russia and Japan. Tho French reply to the American memorandum, mem-orandum, therefore, is likely to be determined de-termined by the attitude of Russia, Franco's ally. The French press regards tho question ques-tion as complicated. Tho Figaro thinks tho United States is trying to retrieve tho mistake of 1901-05 when it backed Japan to got Russia out of Manchuria, only lo find that Japan had supplanted hpr there without benefit from the open door. Japan to Bo Rockonod With. "Even if Russia accepts.' ' says one paper, "Japan is not likely to agree. England is bound by a ,'lnpancso alliance, al-liance, and a similar reserve is imposed upon us. for like and other reasons." Tho Matin believes that France will follow Russia 's Jead. Oil Bias expresses ex-presses the opinion that the situation is filled with gunpowder and declares thai the real issue is commercial supremacy su-premacy in China., for which tho United States and Japan aro struggling. It charges thnt the entire aim of American Ameri-can diplomacy is directed to that end and insists that the United States has pushed China to resistance- in every struggle with Japan. "Even after the arrangements of October Oc-tober . last year." continues the paper, pa-per, "in which China .agreed not to construct r railroad in competition with tho South Manchurian. American support conies forward for the construction con-struction of the Ohin-Chow-Fu-Tsitsik-hav line. Now America proposes to go further and force Japan back into Korea, Ko-rea, and thus render effective Chinese domination of Manchuria, which today is purely nominal. . Tokio To Decide. "Secretary Knox's arguments dwell upon tho advantages of terminating tho causo of constantly renewed disputes dis-putes iu Manchuria, but it is'proper to ask whether the aim of tho United States is nlwavs to the. benefit of hu-inunilv hu-inunilv or io the promotion of her own intercuts. Tokio must give the answer. Continued on Pane Two. II MANCHURIAN ROADS P PRESENT PROBLEM ! Conliimed from Page One. ,'Jlij Already t bo Yankee policy lias com- polled Japan to lake the military pre-cautions pre-cautions that so really alarmed litis-jjjjf litis-jjjjf sia. Japan knows how to act quickly. 131 Therefore, tho Japanese response will I jflijl he awaited wit h inquietude." ij-J' La "Liberie considers tho American solution as inecnious and inspired by ija j the generous optimism characteristic of iljul Amorican diplomacy. It regards the ijijlli proposition of tho American govern' mont as equitable in tho interest of Jfijj pence, but fears that Japan's attitudo ijj'jj -will not be encouraging. Iljrj "But tho Amorican initiative," says IJalll La Liberie, "at least will show whoth- f'l er tho imperialism of Japan is com- ijajji patiblo with the peace of tho world." |