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This article focuses on various political issues related to various countries around the world. The Japanese are being sharply watched in China. They have landed a force of 5,000 men to "protect their nationals" at Tsingtao, in Shantung, and they have sent three companies of infantry inland to Tsinanfu. This looks more like an assertion of special rights in the province of Shantung than genuine protection of Japanese lives. Americans, with the marines in Nicaragua, hardly have cause to complain of Japan's course in China, but the Chinese are bound by no such scruples. Belgium is beginning to see the wastefulness and the folly of maintaining a standing army to protect itself from foreign attack. It has therefore been proposed to the Parliamentary Army Commission to reduce the army to a militia, to abolish all cavalry and the use of horses in any military connection, and to substitute motor transportation.