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Show Japan's Plan It Is very clearly demonstrated that Japan has no idea of withdrawing with-drawing her military forces from the present positions of advantage in Manchuria. She resents outside out-side interference and insists that the problems between Japan and China can be settled by direct negotiations. ne-gotiations. Of course, in any negotiation between China nnd Japan, with no outsiders participating, Japan knows that she ran depeend im-, im-, on her superior military and na-' na-' val strength to force concessions from China. Another flavorite statement of the Japanese at the present time is that under no conditions would Japan declare war on China. Of course, from the Japanese standpoint, stand-point, there is no need of war be-cavse be-cavse Japan has already taken rviKeexsinn of Manchuria and ous ted all Chinese authority. Why thould Japan declare war? Last week the New York Hev-ald-Trlbune, a Republican newspaper news-paper very close to the administration, adminis-tration, expressed in a guarded way some concern, saying: "The. . situation in Manchuria holds the major attention of the State De partment. . . Open warfare between be-tween China and Japan wouln present a more delicate international interna-tional problem for this country than the World War. Ultimate, involving of the United States to some degree would be difficult to av.iid." ' Upton Close, well versed on oreintal affairs, told the New-York New-York Times correspondent in Moscow Mos-cow how the recent Janr.nese act-; In Manchuria appeared to one who had iust arrived from China, saying: "Foreigners in Mukrien agTee that the Japanese attach was premeditated, unprovoked and carried out with extreme ntth-lessness ntth-lessness for the purpose of striking strik-ing terror amoni; Chinese forces everywhere . . . The Japanese intend in-tend to colonize Manchuria and Inner Mongolia by means of puppet pup-pet governments of servile Chinese." |