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Generally speaking it seems safe to assert that
Japanese cannes held their own with Chinese in the agricultural
field. Further, it is questionacle whether individuma
Japanese traders san hold their own with Chiness, but it is
here that the Japanese organising genius comes to their FOSCUE,
Japanese have a wonderful aptitude for bringing into existense
large consorme with varied interests having many subsidiary
enterprises under their control, whereas hardly any Chinese
conserns are worthy of the designation of "companies“, In this
connection vide emlosure in my despatch of November 26ta
last year, 19.556.
The big Japanese concerns referred to would, I think,
dominate the entire industrial commersial and even the
agricultural activities of any area where Japanese policy
could exercise itself without restriction. They would xiso
furnish Japanese settlers with employment of a congenial
mature. I believe that the fact that Japanese are lacking in
enterprise and in ability to conform to novel conditions
of existense as colonists is the real obetaule in the my of
emigration at present. Thus, the Japanese dislike both Siberia and Formosa in spite of the fact that the climatân conditions of emai, differ wo widely. I think however wat Japanese will in all likelihood become less particular in the event of the problem of excessive population becoming aeute.
Above refers to your telegram No.221.