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make use of them to proclaim inability to accept responsibility for last week's outrage. Then
it would become a grave issue. As it stands, the British note is emphatic while distinguished for
Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 31, 1937 its moderation. What is less as-
BRITAIN'S NOTE
AND AFTER
protests and de
suring is the implication that be- hind it there is Nothing. There is no hint of reprisals and well- informed. London circles indicate In the view that the British
that should Japan fail to comply Government could not well have Britain will rest content with even with this mild minimum, demanded less by way of repara- the moral obliquy which will be tion by Japan for the wounding visited upon Japan as a nation of the British Ambassador in without respect for international China, and that stiffer demands decencies. High-sounding, such would have allowed well-justified an attitude, nevertheless, arouses resentment to outrun reason. it
anxieties. Referring to Spain not difficult to concur. The condemned the British Govern- the other day, Mr. Lloyd George is full text of the British Note ment, charging that our danger Mantovani Orch.
clears up many obscurities. It was that the totalitarian States Carroll Gibbons, reveals, for instance, that one of
were coming to believe that at no Hilde Garde. the Japanese attacking planes That is the belief on which inter- point would we ever make a stand.
Turner Layton, dropped to within 200 feet before vention in Spain nhas continued releasing its bombs, that the in spite of all committees, the Mantovani Orch.
Union Jacks were placed at the Agreements have been broken the conferences. Carroll Gibbons. rear of the car, protruding above time and again, cynically and sys- the hood, and that there was no tematically, on the assumption Savoy Orpheans:]
reason whatsoever for the Em that Britain would always swal- Savoy Orpheans.bassy cars to be regarded as other pill The belief and the reasons How her Adam's apple and the ..... B.B.C. Orch than non-combatant. It is ob-that have given rise to it are vious, on the facts, that no plea largely responsible for Britain's of accident could be countenance the present time and her willing- tie-up in the Mediterranean at ed for a moment, and that alness in the Far East to make her complete disregard for the san- minimum mild, This behef and ctity of civilian life and of the
the reasons that have given rise to it may also be responsible for elementary principles of civilised an unpleasant surprise from behaviour governed the acts of Tokyo in the next few days. We the Japanese pilots throughout. sincerely hope that no such eva- Britain demands a formal entertamed in Tokyo. But f sive intention is being seriously apology, punishment of those the fears roused by the responsible and assurances that of her propagandists are justified, steps will be taken to prevent the
we do nothing about it, what- es ext? Britan
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China has sibility, regard as beneath her
am unexpecte dignity to accept, and it is Lon-Japanese mi don's earnest hope that the Japing a no anese Government will promptly ing a similar pac
Soviet Russia
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