19 MAY 1928, Page 2

The truth is that there has been a change of

opinion in the United States. Americans recognize now that Great Britain and Japan were right in their estimate of the situation long ago when they said that they were ready and even anxious to make all possible concessions to Chinese Nationalism, but that they doubted whether the Nationalists were in a position to speak for any con- siderable part of China and that in any case it was absolutely necessary to defend the foreigners in the Concessions and Treaty Ports. - Japan seems to have been scrupulously informing the Secretariat of the League of Nations of all the measures she has taken in Shantung.

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