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JAPAN'S POLICY TOWARDS GRIÑAS
'INTERVIEW WITH PRINCE ITO,
Chablegrams from London to leading Japan ese newspapela bave commented upon an elaborate-interview-with-Prince-Ito which appeared, a few days ago, in the New York and Paris editions of the New York Herald, In this interview Prisca Ito discussed, at length and with characteristic frankness, the policy of Japan towards China and also the New York Herald's proposal int A rapproche
ment belween the United States and China.
The text of the interview, as cabled by the staff correspondent of the New York: Herald now in Tokyo, was as follows:-
THE SUGÓKSTEd Alliance beTWEEN AMERICA AND CHINA.
and I am equally certain the world ander it is molt natural that these should look to
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PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
DR W. R. LAMB, AMERICAN OCULIST AND OPTICIAN.
NO. 11, KING EDWARD HOTEL ANNEXE.
TTAS the pleasure of announcing his return to Hongkong where he will remain till H DECEMBER 11TH
Refracting the Eyes according to the most modern and approved methods as employed in the He has all the latest and best instruments qud, spparafus for thoroughly Examining and Metropolitan Eye Hospitals, and has the largest supply and greatest variety of the nosiest kinds and styles of mountings and lauses of the best quality ever brought to this Colony including averal thousand different compound and prismatic leases made, specially to order for the correction of astigmatism and other abnormal conditions of refraction which the ordinary lenses commonly used will not correct services are equal in Ray-respect to the best obtainable anywhore abroad
Hle facilities for attending to those in need of his
wards the United States and Hawall, for there The importance to Japan of China's do the ball of high wageɛto be immediately earned velopment must be equally apparent. There is in held out to them. In addition jbara is the in- certainly every reason to believe that as the captive of learning. Recognising the problems purchasing power of the Chinese people is which the immigration question presents to the increased by the development of har vast re- United States Government, the Government of sources, Japan will, gat ber fall share of the" --Japan hau practically cassad issuing passports increased business. Japan will in the fature to persons desiring to amigrate to those coun purchase an increased amount of rampaterials trics. I am quite sure the arrangement is KA+ from China, and China in inta will pafchase antifactory to both Governments The simplest increased amount of manufactured goods from WAY to put a stop to that kind of immigration, Japan. If Chias develops manufactures in however, would be for the United Statsi and certain lines, there will still be many other Hawail to cosse offering high wages to Japan lines which she must purchase abroad, and our | esp and other immigrants." : " narness to the China market must necessarily I asked Prince Ito whether he thought the give us a certain advantage over our competi. clause in the existing Treaty by which each tors. The commerial development of nations Government reserves to itself the right to re is mutualno nation can be wholly independ-gulate labours would cause any diplomatic ent of other nations in a commercial sense. If friction when the time came for negotiation of an occasionsi Japanese thinks he sees a com- a new Treaty. He said he thought not, mercial menace in China's development, it is It is proper that each and every Govern because be has no knowledge of the comment should retain that sight," said he "WeThose who are troubled with weak or defective vialon, who suffer from eyeache, headache mercial conditions of the world,
recognise the right of the United States to "We know that America's interest in Chios restrict its immigration as it may see fit, just as in exactly that of Japau. America stands for it is the sight of any other Government. We fairness and justice, the open dose and equal understand the difficulties of your immigration opportunity; and so does Japan. It is to secure question, and the part it playa in the politics of these ends, and the peace of the Far East upon your country. There ought; however, to be no which all must depend, that Japan has made discrimination against any people on account her alliance with Great Britain and her chientes of race. I am convinced that the Gaveramont with other Powers. We know that America of the United States and the Government of and the American people have always been our Japan are satisfied with the present arrange friends, and that the Government of the Unitedment, and I see no reason to anticipate any "But as the details of the proposal have been S'ates would enter into ub relations with Chinn differences in the future."—Japan Chronicle. given wide publicity by the Japaness Press, that could be detrimental to Japan's legkimate and it has been made clear that it involves no interests and aspirations. Knowing this, Japan political entanglement but only more active will beartily welcome increased Americap in- friendship on the part of America and the Ams-terest in Chins.” Irican people in China's behalf - a further mani. } › Priace Ito funber expressed the conviction festation of the long existing friendliness of ¦ that the outstanding questions between Japan America towards Chinaan towards other weaker and China, would soon be disposed; of; that nations, in the interest of peace and fair deal. none of them will give any trouble. Both ing and China's development-it is manifest Governments, he said, are desirous" of early. that there is not only nothing in the sugges-settlement; the differences are mainly those
Asked for his views concerning the alliance' de rapprochement proposal, Prince Ito said: "When the Herald's proposal of an alliance' between the United States and Chlua was first brought to my notice, 1 smiled. The idea of an alliance, in the sense in which the term is usually employed-that of an offensive and defective pact between two Governments seemed to me an impossibility, and of Courre is;
I cannot imagine a condition that would lead the Government of the United Sials to depart from its traditional policy and, enter foto's political alliance with any other
bation, least of all with China.
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that such na ajrangement would contribute to ance with the Treaty negotiated at' Peking li was a fortunate day for Mr. Charles Louis- the end of Japan's desires.
by Couat Komura. There might be delay in Roggen, ‘a tea” and coffee, plavier of Radjam, JAPAN'S ÁTTITUDE; -
the settlement of the Chicotao boundary ques and ela, Java, when he read about Dr. Wil -japan's attitude towards Chion is altogether tion, as in all bundary questions, but he tollliams Pink Pills and resolved to try them friendly. Our highest interest is permanent ceriaid this would give rise to no trouble Frobably be had often read of these Pits be peace in the Far East. To that end we hope Japin's interest was solely that of safeguarding fore, as you have, and had scoffed at the idea to see a good Government in China, a Govern the interests of Korea and of the Korend ment able to prevent internal disturbare residents in the dispated territory. " and to intelligently promote the development of that country. There is absolutely no warrant for the idea, 'which seams to bava bean
entertained in some parts of the world, that Japon desires any, of China's territory,› Nor d'ass japán entertain any other sinister designs against China.
Our diplomatic differences with China have boon unwarrantedly magnified just as many other of our policies have beau Imisrepresented. The suggestion that the
THE "YELLOW PERIL".
Returning to the subject of China, Priece It'n again emphasizad Japan's friendliness and, especially, that while fapan was ever ready to
act with the other Powers in aiding in China's development, it will be without taking a hand in China's internal politics. "If we were to do that, what would the sort of the world say ?," was bis cominent.
I suggested" Yellow Perii," military statesmen of Japan are, nursing some Prisce to laughed heartily, The popula policy of territorial expansion at ibe expense of tion of the world," said he, "is in sound Dum- China is merely a meal of somebody's vivid bere-something-like-fifteen-hundred-million imagination. It requires, nothing more than people. There are no complete statistics, but intelligent insight into the various problems the total is approximately that. Of this num- ficing us in Korea, Formons, Saghalien, and ber, the yellow and brows and black peoples the Liaotung to understand that Japan is not comprise a majority. Were there among these "entertaining" dreams of further" territorial a Napoleos or 20 Alexander, or a leader expzésion, either in the direction of China or in possessing the power of both these great mili Loy olbar dírecljon. Since the war with Russia,tary leaders combined, there would still be no Japan has been made the victim of a vast deal of midrepresentation, of which this misstatement of our attitude towards China is but ogo phase, All of this misrepresentation is baseless; the ides that japan either wants to disrupt China for to prevent her development is the mos: 'beanclots of all."
possibility of the destruction of one race by another, sod in all human probability no nitempt in that direction. Such talk as
Yellow Peril ' is too silly to bet ken seriously by anybody. If I remember weil, - not long ago a member of the House of Com mans rose and asked whether tho tíma hideót JAPAN'S INTEREST IN CHINA'S DEVELOPMENT.
come for a war against ali Mohammedano., To my suggestion that a good many Japin. Another member asked: What of the many ext seem to think it to their country's best in-millions of Mohammedass in lodia who are serest that China remain weak and 'ondevelop ed, Praca Ita said:
idea. Our friendship for China is not merely altruistic it has a practical, an intensely prac tical, basis. First of all, the preservation of peace in the Far East is to our highest interest. To to other nation does peace mean more than to Japan. A disturbance of the prace of China, from whatever cause, would place upon Japan responsibilities which every Japanese mindful of the best interests of his country would es cape. At the time of the Boxer outbreak we, were told by Europe the interests of humanity demanded that we dispatch at once two divi sions of our troops to the scene of troubler We did our part, but it is no small, sking to send an army of that sixe into a foreign land. -When England sent forty, thousand soldiers to Egypt at the time of the Arabi Pasha affair atid the bombardment of Alexandria, it took some.
"No thinking, man can entertain such as
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among the most loyal subjects of the British Empite?' That question immedistely stop ped the mouth of the first quarioner.
**! This episode," added Prince. Ito, "serves |
that this one medicios could care so many different maladies, as perhaps you do. But on that particular day he threw his scepticism to the winds, with the happy result that now he enjaya tha blessings of abundant health inïlead. of leaning the "deplorable existance" which reccatly he described in the following graphic
words
“About, a year ago I was suffering severely said he. The sheumatic pains were all over from Rheumatism and Chronic Headaches,"
the entire body, but especially in my back; my appetite was very bad and also my digestion. acher: on rising in the morning I was in a state of feverish host and aching all over.
** So- 1 - went coa suffering this deplorable existence, taking medicines but without fad. log relief, and fulfilling my duties as acting- manager of this Estate with difficulty, unti.
I'never went to bad without the 'awful head-
one day through reading in a pamphlet about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Palo People I was persuaded to give these Pills a trial.
to show how the interests of the different peoples of the world are interwoven regardless Before I had been taking Dr. Williams' of colour or creed. Beppily the day has long Pink Pills for very long I felt remarkably since passed when a monarch could. pre batter; there were days when I felt perfectly cioftate & was based on creed or colour. The well; and so I continued taking them until dfferent people of the world know too much of was entirely cured. Since then L have re- one another, their interests are too closely mained in perfect health; eat well, sleep well, intertwined, to permit a crusade of race against enjoy a good digestion; and do my work with racę or colour against colour. The talk of ease and pleasure. I attribute this pleasant Yellow Feril is just as foolish as talk of White | state of affairs solely to Dr. Williams' Pink' Peril. The world is big enough for all the Pills, and therefore I voluntarily, and with people it contains, and they can live on in peace much pleasure, give this testimony for the and happipes without onn race encroaching information of suffeters and for the general upon another."
public benefit" Mr. Roggen is acting man- ager of the "Landbouw Maatschappy Radja mandala," at Radjamandala, Java. It was by driving the poisonous acid which causes Raumatism from his blood, and by strengthen ing his digestive organs and his whole system, cared him, and in the same way they are
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as the. Boxer affair would mean to japan the 1 Prince Ito's views upṛn: Japadesa emigration that Dr. Williams! Pink Pills for Pela People SPECIAL CARS by Arrangement at thi] Hongkong, 20th Juls, 1007; A disturbance in China of similar dimensions elicited a highly interesting expression of
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who would.recompense her? The Chinese | by no means ke great as it has bena·sõprosoni. constantly curing sufferers from such3 allments Des Vœux Road Central. people may be rich, but the Government ed. While it is true that statistics show
Liver Complaint, Malaria, Sciatica, Lumbago, as Anxomis (weak watery blood), Dability, Paralysis, Bari-Beri, Nervousness, Early ximately five hundred thousand, there is now Decay, Boils, Pimples and Skin Eroptions, and no surplus of population such as need„give the Government say anxiety, nor will there be in the after-effects of Fever, Dysentery and Chills.
The great remedy for the special ailments
ment of Jupin is sending its people' abroad, or
of Chica is poor. If you consider the annual increase in Japan's population of appro- matter from this practical viewpoint aloup, you must see that not only would not. Japan-pro- voke trouble with China, but it is to her best interest that no such trouble be provoked from the bear future. It is not true that the cover which trouble ladies between youth and middle aay sou.cs.. Good government in China is the best possible insurance against such trouble in that it is faced with any necessity of finding an down by overwork, excesses, or residence in age, they also speedily restore men broken the future, thesoforo Japan is.kommitly desirous outlet for an excess of people. Rather is the of sceing such government and of aiding in its contrary true. Japan has a great arount of healthy climates. Obtainable at most shops promotion to such an extent as an outside undeveloped agricultural land in the Hokkaido where medicines, are sold, alsa direct from the Power, may.ba able. This must be dons, how which the Government is anxious to furnish to Dr. Williams Medicine Co, 8B, Kiukiang ever, without our lavolving curatives in the agricultural labourers at a merely nominal cast; Road, Shanghai, at St.go per bottle or 6 bottlen intersal politics of the Chinese Empira.
then there are Kores and the Japanese portion for $8/post free. "This, however, is but ons phase of the of Saghalien to faraish opportunity for that
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