JAPAN'S BID FOR CHINESE TRADE.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3479, 3 November 1913, Page 2

JAPAN'S BID FOR CHINESE TRADE.

INNER HISTORY OF THE RE-

BELLION

Excitement has been produced at Tokio (says a Reuter message) by the statements telegraphed from Pekmg and Shanghai that the revolution which broke out at Kiangsi and at Canton andi Shainghai has been financed and helped by the Japanese. Dr Sun Yat Sen, on Ins .visit to Japan last January and February, publicly stated that one of tee objects of liis mission, vas to -hank Mr Okura and others lor the financial assistance which they bad given the revolutionaries.

Japanese official, sympathies "ere with the lmpe -fill party, primipruiy foi the reason that the es’.ub.'ishiiiont of a republic m Ch ua mignt baye <> very deleterious effect on social and political, institutions in Japan. Sun Yat Sou was clever enough to realise that ho was not capable of holding the Presidency, and retired in favor of Yuan. Shi Kai,. the only strong man in the Middle Kingdom. Yuan Shi Kai is not predisposed to Japan. The Japanese Government lias made every effort to make friends with him, because it is recognised that he is the only mi * able to rest< re order from chaos, and order in Chute is essential to the cevelouinont or even the continuance, of Japanese industries. ... Ever since Sun Yat Sen • view, arms have been -hipped over -o ‘ ".«na, mostly up the Yang-tse ana o Canton and Foochow. It is moorre..* to say that those arms have been sxiipi>e<l entirely by Japanese. It is; difficult to know whether the Japanese Government could have stopped these shipments. lhey were made by firms on whom the present Cabinet relies <o a gnat ex'SUt Iji support. Finally, China is not a recognised Power. Her Government is at present only provisional. v\ >ulst the Powers lend her money, and sea her subjects arms and ammunition, they do not recognise liar, and it is doubtful if any request from the Provisional Government to step the shipments would have met with acquiesC °The Chinese trouble has diverted public attention from the Californian question in a very bappy manner, and the Japanese Foreign Office "te be able to consider the American Note unliarassed by deputations and outsiders. ... Tliere is a division of opinion m Japan, as to what should be the future policy of that country in China. "A certain section believe that Japan s best policy is in the north where she already has a strong foothold through Manchuria, But on the other hand it is claimed that Manchuria yll never be a paying proposition tor A strong section of the army urnJy believe that another. war "dh R*}-s m is only a question ot time ©spec. ally if Japan’s Maneli man P'-hoy is ©( - tinned. Hence . ce qemand for the two new divisions of the Japanese Army (the forerunners of is. a very strong public opinion that Japan’s policy m China ought to be devoted to the opening to Japanese industries of the South, with its teeming population «nd ite inexhaustible demand ter cotton and otlmr o-oods which Japan can produce.