THE BULLYING OF CHINA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 113, 4 May 1908, Page 4

THE BULLYING OF CHINA

■I.U'.W KAllliES THE TIIIOATY <>!■' I'IUiTSMOUTU. In December last it was reported th.it matters ill Manchuria had come tn sin-n ;i pa,-, that unless foreign Powers intervened Russia and Japan would control tlie northern and southern nl the province rc«pcclivc-ly. Sin™ ihe evacuation of Manc.iuiia in April, Japan, rising superior to tin; Portsmouth Treaty, has established ten telc..raph offices in ailditimi to those at twentyeWit Nations mi the South M.iucliuiiau Kaihvay. all o|>cn to interiiation.ii Irallie. The telegraph offices accept ■lapanese menage's in the Katakalla script at .la|iancse rates. The Chinese (.iurcrinuciit has In nc- ' jtnlialiii" Willi Japan on lliis mailer without achiovill", the slightest resiill All I lie Chinese pr.,le.s th ai/ailis! Hie violation uf China's soverei-n rij-hU have lieeu ignored. Kus-ia ha- now in funned the Chinese- Covcrnmellt 1 ii.lt mile- a i-.nivi-iili.Mi is .Miiclude.l wilhia a iva-.nial.le time In Chin,, will. .l-,|,,ri ri«iie,-liiiM i!„. 5..11111 Maii.-liinian ,-ail way. telegraph similar to Hint which Kns-ia made with China during last month Uussia will In- obliged lo abrogate Hint convention, as she will he pliiee.l in a position inferior lo thai .if • lapan. In Chine,.' official i|uarter* it is maintained Iha I appearance iiistifv the belief Ihal Japan hn«-ii" intention ,if observing lh.< Portsmouth Treaty, bill considers Sonlli Manchuria a- pari of her empire, and inaiiv see in Hie present situation in Southern Man.-hiiria a ~,•,,•. allel with that whii-h existed in Km-e-i twelve years ago. The opinion is even .-•.pre-M-.l that it would be better if I he ■l:.panes,. w (J „|,| ,„„.,, )■„,. ~u v \.y m \ y ,|„. clave Southern Manchuria to Ik- pa'rl of their empire rather than earn- mi protract eil negotiations which onn' effect, no purpose. Europeans arriving in North China via Siberia complain bitterly of the gross incivility of Japanese soidiers nu-l officials to Europeans travelling on the Smith Manchuria- railway, and dedal''that that i* the only section of the whole journey on which anv ineiviltv is experienced at all. They also -peak of <4le harshness, if not worse, of the .lap-eiie.-e towards Chinese. These complaints are frequent.