The New East for September, which has just arrived from
Tokyo, contains some plain speaking by Japanese writer. about Japan's relations with this country and with America. The editor of the Asahi Shimbun states that some Japanese regard as grievances the exclusion of coloured labour from Australia, the prohibition of sales or leases of land in the Malay States to coloured people, and the temporary partition of the former German colonies in the Tariffs, where Japan occupies the islands north of the Equator while Australia and New Zealand hold those south of the Equator. The Japanese complaints in regard to shipping are stated and answered at length. In regard to China the more responsible news- papers urge the need of caution, but at least one journal suggests that " the Western Powers are constantly planning the broak•up of China "—the very last thing, of course, that the Allies and America could desire. An instructive account of " The German Hold on China" is quoted from the Jiji Skimp° ; Germany had a great network of commercial interests which she has sacrificed to her god of cat
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