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Show ANTI-JAPANESE SENTIMENT IN I CHINA Anti-.lapanc6e sentiment is said to i be prpatly on the Increase throughout through-out China, and the Toklo newspapers aro much troubled about it Tbey arc especially worried about Chinese ro-senfmcnC ro-senfmcnC or, rather, scorn of Japan'3 adoption of modern dress and man' ners and -ways of thought The same Ideas and practices that are tolerated tolerat-ed in Occidentals as bclar natural to them arc regarded by tho Chinese as. marks of degeneracy In the Japanese, Japan-ese, who havo had the advantage of P.hlnoKA tpnviilnp :inri nrnmnln fni twenty centuries or so. I 'FliCiJa-ppnese feel ihat thev can af- ford to d srognrd this aSDect of Chl-ulesc Chl-ulesc lioAlMtV feeling quite sure that they aro-ou tho right track, hut there aro qther and more practical causes of bad feeling. For Instance, a recent d5.cla.ratlon.of tho Marquis Komura In tho Japanese Parliament that Eastern Asia Is the only sato field for Japan- ese colonization has caused great alarm In China The rap'd construction construc-tion of the Ynlu river brldbe enhances this feeling, and In addition the investigations in-vestigations which are being conducted conduct-ed by Japanese emissaries for scientific scien-tific and commercial purposes are regarded re-garded by tho people as being really military espionage In a word China Is panicky over tho prospect of Japanese Japan-ese invasion and conquest. To those material reasons must be added the absurd rumors that ' circulate all through China lo the effect that tho recent great mortality In Manchuria was not due to tho plague but was caused by tho poisoning of the wells by the Japanese. One of the serious Immediate consequences con-sequences of this bad state of Chinese Chi-nese feeling In the wholesale cutting of wires and rerailment of trains on the railroads In Manchuria New York Sun. |