Bisbee daily review., 1915-05-01
Saturday Morning, May 1, 1915
rHE c4INA.JAPANEse SITUATION.

While the situation in the Far East is well calculated to disgust American friends of both China and Japan there are no lacking signs that at least of the clouds which have been shadowing the TokyoPeking diplomacy are lifting. Count Okumas latest message will have weight with a good many people particularIy those whose interest in Far Eastern diplomacy is m srired by the healthy and wholesome regard for the common good of aIL And certainly Japan has every reason to move cautiously and generously just in her dealings with China.
 No man can say what the ultimate results of the great war are going to be the policies of the Orient Tat while this true there is more than one reason o believe that after all the cards are shuned and dealt cut in the inevitable peace conference. after settlements have been agreed upon and me great nations down the practical work of rebuilding where they are now destroying the fate of the Far East peace war for veal or woe, will rest most largely in the hands of Japan, the United States and Russia.
 In addition to the internal and colonial prob l,ms which England and France will have meet in victory of defeat England is very likely to find her hands very full in India that she win be free 10 devote her energies to purely Far Easten de;elop- ment however her diplomacy may relish subordinate place in the formation of Far Eastern decisions Ths of course is not at all incompatible with fair amount of energy on her part the conservation far is possible of the very valuable trade she has succeeded in developing on the Yangtze and elsewhere after years oi supremacy in the oriental diplomatic field
 It is insignificant however that tho war has at au diminished Russias restless activity in the Pa. E5st-the very latest dispatches bring Of in. dustrial and financial undertakings in Mongolia and it is just possible that en explanation Of Japan's eager ness to act immediately in some decisive way Inc Asian mainland inspired by his persistent Russian pressure.
 Combs
 There is great field here for constructive Amor can diplomacy A better feeling is growing up between the more influential elements in Russia and the people of the country which indicates that Russia might be inclined to listen to suggestions from Washington praperly put in preservation Of mutual interests in the oriental commercial aeld This presupposes Of course a practical acquiesence policy a def uite stand in defense of the preservation of China There is no doubt whatsoever in the minds of many progressive and influential Japanese that it to Ja pans interest to strengthen American prestige ori ental diplomacy as the best possible defense against a more than possible future clash between Japanese apI Russian interests instigated by continued nbbne al China's domain.
 s Just pJSelbe lldl h pressing TOT an uuueIoldu ing upon outstanding China-Japanese questions th, statesmen of Tokyo may be nursing in their mind, scme great altrusuc plan the nature Of which they in tend to disclose at the proper tme-when the mevta bIe peace conference is attempted to recolor ver large pert of the map of the world. Japans friend hope so and many of them think that she win be yer! wise if she does adopt position which win end a once and for an time the competition which has gon or decade after decade between majority of th great powers fin ufrngemens upon China There fl some truth in the phrase, Japan's problem is China, Jarans best solution Of that problem is the friendship of the Chinese people and if she proceeds persistent to cultivate that friendship through justice an
 generosity assurlng that China is already out of lead ing strings though suH needing aid she cannot bu have the wholehearted support of the people Of thi country The day may in the affairs Of Japa when that supper, win be worth having.