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Show ! JAPAN'S LITTLE GAME i IS READY TO PROTECT THE CHINESE CHI-NESE EMPIRE. If Partition Comes, the Japanese Will Demand De-mand Their Share, But In the Mean Time They Wish to be Regarded as Friendly Eto China. Vancouver, 13. C, April 7. Oriental advices brought by the steamer Empress Em-press of Japan, indicate that Japan has watched with jealous eye Italy's recent attempt to get possession of San Mun. Marquis Ito has been in direct communication commu-nication with Li Yung Chang, and has advised various reforms. He says the partition of China will be inevitable should China persist in her present course of action. In view of the San Mun affair, the Japanese are saying their government must abandon the hold-aloof policy hitherto adopted, and demand some substantial grant of land from China, probably a port in Fokien. Count Okuma, ex-premier, advises the government to so conduct itself as to induce China to rely solely upon the "gallant" assistance of Japan for the maintenance of independence. The first measure to be adopted for that purpose is to drill several hundred Chinese Chi-nese soldiers by Japanese officers; secondly, sec-ondly, to encourage the dispatch of Chinese students to Japan for study. If the situation should compel Japan to take a finalstep.it will be absolutely necessary for her to hold Amoy and the railway between that place and Iiankow. This phase can only enter into Japan's Ja-pan's calculations when the maintenance mainten-ance of China's integrity is entirely despaired of and there is no hope of preventing a partition. In the meantime, mean-time, Mr. Yano, the Japanese minister minis-ter at Pekin, has applied to the Chinese Chi-nese government for five new settlements settle-ments for Japan's exclusive use, to be opened at Foo Chow, Aruoy, Inkaw (Newchang), Shanghai and Chungking, in addition to the Tientsin and Hankow Han-kow settlements which have been ceded already. It is stated that the Chinese government has decided to entertain en-tertain the demands, with the exception excep-tion of Shanghai and Chungking. |