Show SAYS S OPEN DOOR IS ONLY IN IMAGINATION Foreign Merchants Are Unable to Compete With the Japanese In Manchuria Washington From various sources tho attention of the state department1 has been drawn to what It regards as tho great hindrance to foreign trado with Manchuria caused by the circulation circula-tion of the war notes Issued by the Japanese generals In tho field during tho late war to tho Chinese farmers and traders and coolies who supplied either fodder food transportation or labor for the Japanese soldiers Llko notes were Issued during tho Civil war by Union commanders In cases of necessity and they were all redeemed by tho national government In tho end It Is not doubted that It Is the purpose pur-pose of tho Japanese government to redeem their notes and In fact tho redemption Is said to bo In progress but In a manner which It Is claimed Is giving grant dissatisfaction to the foreign houses trading with Manchuria Manchu-ria The charge Is mado In some of the complaints that have reached Washington that discrimination Is practiced to tho great detriment of our trado In that quarter |