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Show EVIDENT JAPAN IS SOMEWHAT WARY OF ARBITRATION TOKYO. Auc I HealuUon on th part of Japan to ntr Into nacotlatlons with tha I'nltKl Stataa looklni to th. coiKtualon of aa arbltatlon traaty on linn Imllar to thoa project! btl.Mn Oraat Britain and the United fetata la not born .of objaetloa. to arbitration, but artaM front a dmra to know mora of what may ba proposed bafora eommlttlna hr-alf. hr-alf. It ta point ad out that triers ars certain thlncs whlrh Japan cannot and will not arbitral any mora than tt would ba raa-aonabta raa-aonabta to mpaot lha I'nlted tftatea to arbltrata tha application of tha Monro doctrine. I'ndoubtadly Manchuria la the crux. So much baa bean aald and Is bain ba-in aaid about tha hand of tha whole world bain aralnst Japan'a sxpanslan policies that It haa coma to be th popular belief in Japan that every effort will ba made to prevent her nmkliui any more out or her present position In Manchuria than the life of the leaaea permita. SltuMloa Doubtful It la a fact, undoubtedly, that Japan's Rlans for the future, ao far as Manchuria i concerned, are nebulous. 8 he haa de. velttped the port of !arin atona; tlte llnea of tha proa-ram' laid down by Russia before the war. and Dwrtaa Is beoofnln e maantfk-enl Pacific port. There la ne Intention ot making Port Arthur a naraJ base, but It. too. wit) be developed alone commercial llnea. four hand red mile of the South Manchuria railway, together with the leaae of the peninsula, have In-volved In-volved vast expenditures. These may be Mlmhnraarl hu I'kU. .. la. 1 . mlnatvd, but there la another interest, namely, the Antung -Mukden railway, which In another ear will be the continuation con-tinuation of the Korean railways and tha laal link In the line between Puean at the sou the I a end of peninsula of Korea and Berlin. By the time the leases bava terminated termi-nated the capital account will be very large, and It la doubtful If China will be able to pur-has. Meanwhile, the development devel-opment of Manchuria goes on almost entirely en-tirely becauee of the a -ttvtt.es of Japan, and tha Chinaman resident benefits In so far aa he la able to market hla produce, while at the earns time, the monev In circulation cir-culation tncreaeee and he la more prosperous. pros-perous. Jap Doesn't Like Manchuria. The Japanese do not care to go to Manchuria. Tha climate does not suit them and there they must coma In oempe. tltkm as laborers and aa merchanta with I the Chinaman, who la a cheaper laborer and eonally aa astute a merchant. Nevertheless Nev-ertheless there can be no doubt that Japtn Intends to maintain ber sphere of Influence Influ-ence up to the taat. There haa been so much bickering over certain Intereeta tn Manchuria, and ae much of discrimination discrimina-tion aawlnat others and Intrigue In their own behalf baa been laid to the door nf i Japan that ahe always look a for some move that will follow the earn 11ne. Arbitration Ar-bitration haa not a pleasant sound to the Japenoee officials. They have been 1 disappointed by arbitration before. Nv-I Nv-I erthetesa If the terms f (he Anlo- 'American treaty are found to be practical prac-tical there le every likelihood that Jien ! will not be unwilling to Join, but rhe always ask to he allowed to apply the Monroe doctrine tn Asia. |