Show IS foreign merchants are unable to compete with the japanese in manchur a washington from various sources the attention of the state department has been drawn to what it regards as the great hindrance to tore agn trade with manchuria caused by the ciraula alon of the war notes issued by the japanese generals in the field during the late war to the chinese farmers and traders and coolies who supplied either fodder food transportation or labor for the japanese soldiers like notes were issued during the civil war by union commanders in cases ot necessity and they were all redeemed by the national government in the end it Is not doubted that it Is the purpose of the japanese government to redeem their notes and in tact the redemption is said to be in progress but in a manner which it Is claimed is giving great dissatisfaction to the foreign houses trading with manchu na the charge Is made in pome of the complaints that have reached washington that discrimination 1 practiced to the great detriment ot our trade in that quarter |