MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 767, 16 March 1910, Page 8

MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS.

In.an_arbcle upon the suggestion made 7 the, United States Secretary of btate )> for the neutralisation of ,tho Manchunan. railway's,' the "Novoe \ remya , (St. Petersburg), rejects the idea, which it describes as an astonishing proposal, and the fantastic product' of the imagination of ' promoters and -contractors.

sc^ em 6, ■ says the journal, is I particularly advantageous to American | industry,, but- Russia lias not the least | reason to renounce her rights, and the I Russian section of the anchuriari railways. must Ternain in Russia's hands until the expiry of the existing agreement. On the other hand, as China's friend, Russia should lend every possible. assistance to railway construction The proposal of Mr. Knox has hot called forth' one word in favour from any source throughout Japan. Viscount Hayashi,: ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs,' in an interview, declared that the proposal amounted to confiscation by the Powers of Japan's rights in Manchuria, which had been secured as : a reward 'for heavy expenditure of blood and treasure. He compared the present' situation with that following tho .war of 1895, when the Powers oufcmanoevred Japan and secured rights for which she had: fought.

The sami-offioial journal, "Komuriinshimbun," in the course of its asks whether Germany and France would be willing to neutralise, the' Shantung and Yunnan provinces.