Show I CHINAS CHINA'S FRIEND The United States Stats ought to have a sincere friend in China It was John Hay American secretary of state who got Russia and Japan to agree that freedom freedom free free- dom doni of trade trade the the open door door in in Manchuria L should bo be adhered to so far as 38 their power there was con con- Then hen time the the Portsmouth treaty through American auspices secured to China Chinn her political rights in that region It binds Russia and Japan completely and simultaneously to evacuate te Manchuria Man fan churia except the terr territory affected by the lease of the peninsula and and entirely and completely to restore to the exclusive administration of China all parts of Manchuria occupied by br Russian or J Japanese Jap ap- ap anese troops or oi under their control with the exception tion of the above e mentioned territory I t It also binds Russia and Japan to to exploit their respective ra railways in iii Manchuria for commercial and industrial purposes exclusively Recently Mr rr Fisher the American Amer can at refused to recognize any Russian administration in that region on the ground that he lie was was was' accredited solely to China and that HInt Chinese sovereignty r h by the terms of the Portsmouth treat treaty was supreme throughout Man faIl faIl- churia churin a. a Russia of course does docs not like this but bt China docs toes and now the Chinese boycott of Japanese goods is in full force so Japan docs does not like the situation Ye We suspect that both Russia and Japan will seek to break through time the restraints which the treaty draws around them but hut the they will not do it this year and in the time meantime China Ohina is preparing s to bl b a a formidable formidable for for- power in the near future rp The United States should struggle to hold held the tho vantage she has hasin hasin hasin in China |