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...Japan expects foreign nations to give consideration to the special situation created by the Manchuria and Shanghai incidents, and to realize that technical or financial assistance to China must attain political significance...
Paris, April 20--The Japanese "hands off" statement on China was regarded in high quarters here today as one of the most important developments in pacific relations since the seizure of Manchuria by Japan...
...Twenty-one Demands of 1915. Thwarted at that time, chiefly by untimely publicity, in her endeavors to establish a virtual protectorate over China, she managed deftly to acquire a strangling grasp on certain important Chinese economic interests, such as the Han-Yehping mines, as well as significant privileges in Manchuria. Her recent advances in this tremendously important region need no comment, and these are being supplemented by subterranean movements in Mongolia and Sinkiang. From these it would appear, with little exaggeration, that Japan is adopting a veritable Einkreisungspolitik in regard to China proper...
Paris applauded André B. d'Olivier, agent for the French National Association for Economic Expansion, who signed last week a long projected agreement with the South Manchuria Railway to grant it credit for purchasing French rolling stock and material for use in Manchukuo...
London, hating to see rich contracts slip between its fingers, debated whether it had been wise to cheer so loudly for the Lytton Report, blaming Japan directly for the invasion of Manchuria. Wrote the Times: ''Whatever may be thought of the origins of the new state, it is impossible not to admire Japanese grit and organizing capacity. . . . Countries which have trading interests in the Far East . . . must not delay too long in making up their minds how to reconcile their trading activities in Manchuria with the principle of non-recognition...