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Hong Kong, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1937
"WE ARE VERY SORRY"______
Just as Anuch
the shelling of HMS. Bee
a range of 400 yards. The only difference between the incidents was in effect, and the effect w
trous that Admiral Hase- wa yesterday afternoon could find nothing more to do to placate American opinion that he had already done. This is the affair of the American authorities,
rer, and, tendering our sy we leave them to han in their own way. Our con- cern is with the Wuhu and king incidents in which the Daily Telegraph defects, by Deliberate attacks on British
some extraordinary reasoning, ships in the Yangtze, such inci-conciliatory assumption in the dents as the invasion of Hong suggestion that the military Kong waters by Japanese blue-commanders in the Yangtze jackets and the falling of shells Valley are running amok! - This
is desperately clutching at the upon a Hong Kong beach, such flimsiest straw to justify another tragic outrages as the sinking of demonstration of British Pa tience 1937 Model. For ou the US.S. Panay and of three
part, obedience to the behest of American tankers, will go on and the authorities, to remember the on in their woeful succession old school tie and behave, all of until the Powers apologise pro- us, as best we can, as little di- plomats in a troublesome world, perly to Japan for their presence becomes, as we are not fish, ever in China, or, alternatively reach la matter of greater difficulty.
the conclusion that the time has The more thought that is given come to make a stand. It is ob to events, their progression and development, the position to viously impossible, if we are Bri-which policy has carried us in Itish and care a hoot for the digni- the last few months in the Far ty of the British flag, or if we East, and it remains the more remarkable that some restraint are Americans and feel that Old language can still be exercis Glory demands some respect, to However, we suspect that there go on as we have been doing is a limit to British patience Outrage-protest-apology,
that somewhere and with Japan's ap- parently studied efforts to defect tragi-comic trinity of Arrogance, its whereabouts, it surely must Futility and Oriental Politeness, be reached When the erstwhile
anese "Daily have been a British indulgence pro-
ahead of
so often in this campaign that begins to refer to them as
dits and m a most the idea of Whitehall winding up tone, used usually only for by making the ultimate apology munists, Britain must be closely is publicly handied about in this approaching the tuning-pon
Nevertheless, if we read Jap- Colony as a common joke as soon
the an's mind correctly over as an incident occurs in which
Panay
she expects by regret, British honour is put at stake by Japanese cymcism. Apologies are Japan's cheapest commodity to-day. They cost nothing are worth less, judging by pas experience, than gratuitous ings usually are It again and again: apology and another bomb, to- not necessarily because the kyo Government which the regrets is not sincere, but cause it is absolutely power to contr
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