SO long as Chang Tso-lift Contented himself with ruling - Manchuria
the relations of the Manehurians 'With the Japanese garrison and the Officials on the rail- ways were 'passably good, but his absence at Peking made --room:for all sorts of friction. If he returns to Manchuria he will find affairs much worse thin when he departed. The action of the Japanese is highly intelligible ; they - feel that they have suffered 'enough" already and must make it plain that they will not let events-drift to disaster ; 'but their task is an extremely-delicate -One, "and We 'Mist hope that nothing will cause them -to fall out of line with the other Powers. One good-sign is that the Japanese people -are resolutely opposed to a forward " policy in China. - In' Washington, the Tiniis correspondent Saks, it is believed that before" long Japan 'will declare a 'Pro- tectorate over Manchuria. What *Mild happen theh ? Japan might plead- that Great 'Britain behaves as-though Egypt were a -Protectorate though forinally the -PrOtec- torate was abolished, and that. the United States, when -necessary, treats any country in her own hemisphere as ia Protectorate under the Monroe Doctrine. Even' if a Manchurian -Protectorate - is moonshine 'it Wilt" not be surprising if, when Japan comes to the point of signing Mr. Kellogg's Pact, she indicates some reservation in regard to-Manchuria; • •
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