Japan has decided to send at least 25,000 troops to
Shantung. Two cruisers are also going to join the twenty or so destroyers at Tsingtao. Public opinion in Japan is expressing itself quietly ; there are no furious demands for vengeance. And not even memories of the fact that the Treaty of Versailles gave Japan the old . German port of Tsingtao and the German-built Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railway (afterwards restored to China "it the Washington Conference) has caused any resemblance to A public demand for territorial acquisitions. The Tokyo correspondent of the Times says that a leader in the Asithi fairly represents the public tone. It points out that China's credit with the Japanese people has been destroyed and that the growing confidence of Japan in Chinese Nationalism has been dissipated. But the 4sahi doubts whether the dispatch of troops will "-dO tiny good,'-' 'and thinks it would - have been better to withdraw the Japanese residents to the coast.
