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rei put his finger at the key to China's posi- tion in declaring that it would be folly either to over estimate or to under estimate her strength. Chiang Kai-shek is stronger than fever before an his career. It was on the support of the guilds in intended for the Yangtze valley that General
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Meantime, the statesmen of Ja Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 1937 pan are still endeavouring to cal-
JAPAN'S FEARS
culate just what a war with China maght mean. -
More than 35 years ago Ameri- can and British military experts. were asked to estimate how big There is increasing reason to an army would be needed to ec- suppose that Soviet Russia's placeSarpy China. They said it would in the picture of the North Chin have to be at least 800,000 crisis is larger than is generally strong. That was in Boxer Rebel- appreciated. The withdrawal on days before China's army was from the Yangtze indicated Ja- modermsen At present at least pan's desire to avoid complica- that number would be needed tions. The Hangjao Incident,
even to attempt to take and hold sufficiently provocative to furn-the principal seaports against ish a casus belli in the Shanghai China's 1,900,000 more or less area had it been in line with poefficient troops.
licy, was remarkable for the Another army of at least 500,- strange self-imposed restraint of 000 men would be needed to the Japanese Naval Landing Par-guard against a Russian invasion ty, and remains a remarkable of Manchukuo.
witness to Japan's determination To transport and supply such not to countenance diversion if it forces would take the whole Ja- can possibly be avoided.
merchant marine, and panese Only one explanation seems lo-
many more ships would have to gical Japan has one eye on be acquired The problem that China and the other, even more would then arise for Japan watchful, upon Russia.
would be how to get the raw ma More than once recently, Mos-terials with which to supply fac cow has shown itself ready for tories and the war machine and trouble and inclined towards dis- how to send out goods that posal of her eastern rival quickly must be sold to keep the nation if the opportunity, with promise going? Where get the funds of success, arose. Up to the
with which to pay costs of buy- time of the Japano-Nazi anti- ing and shipping? Tokyo has Communist Pact, to which Prince only a small gold supply and can- Konoye referred significantly last not get loans anywhere. Its week, Moscow had been showing home finances have been strained attitude It was almost to the breaking point by ready to
-year renewal its deficits for military prepar of the fishin eaty and to per-ations.
mit Japanese exploitation of the Then, if Russia came in, there North Saghalien oilfields. But the would be the danger of raids on Berlin agreement was signal for all the great Japanese centres of a stern face and, in effect, Tokyo population and industry. But this was dared to start a quarrel, as might not be the worst of the it has been several times since, on the Amur River and else could be used to devastate the consequences. Russian planes
where.
fishing fleet, thus striking at Ja- In some quarters, indeed, it is pan's most important food sup believed that Japan's military ply. Russian submarines, "from aim in North China is less to in- Vladivostock could be used for flict injury upon China just this purpose and also against Ja, one of those um
by-pro-panese merchant ships and trans- ducts of higher
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