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Japan has at last been com-
to accept the inevitabilit sorolonged hostilities in Chine and to plan afcordingly. That seems to be the explanation of and Imperial Headquarters on the meeting of the Tokyo Cabinet Saturday. Only with the great- est reluctance has this viewpoint
Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. been accepted in Tokyo, but it has been accepted and a revival of military activity in the Yang- taze Valley may be anticipated at any time. Whether hostilit- ies will be extended to South China depends largely upon the vigour of the Chinese resistance. New tactics are reported to have been arranged at a military con- MAURICE ́ ́ SASSO - ELSIE ference in Hankow and
these tactics can only mean that unless BERNDT--At the Roman Catholic Cathedral on the 10thJapan is prepared to increase
largely the strength January, 1938, at 10:00 a.m.
1 of her fight- ing forces in China as a whole, there will be none to spare for
MARRIAGE
Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 11, 1938 what was intended to be à piece-
· REALISM
meal "clean-up" in Kwangtung. Already Japan has twenty divi- sions on active service when she
Most of the concessions made thought the "affair" could be by the Powers to Japan in the managed with six, and the effect upon her economy has been ex- tangled course of, the last few months have been condoned on posed by the stabilisation of the the ground that a realistic view strict governmental control of yen a Japanese euphemism for of the political situation, taken the exchange market, compelled by and large, permitted of ho by heavy shipments of gold out It is difficult, how- of the country to pay for military
other course,
ever, to associate realism with
the attitude which, it is predictecessities. Efforts are being ed, will be adopted by Mr. made partially to repair the Neville Chamberlain and the North China and by flooding the damage by awift exploitation in Foreign Office concerning the Yangtsze market with Japanese Shanghai Municipal Council's Te goods entering duty-free, but quest for guidance in the matter the one method depends upon of the Japanese "ultimatum." the development time factor and The suggestion is that the Coun the other upon・ “buyers” cil will be advised to meet the have been bayonnetted. As was Japanese demands, with the suggested in these columns weeks proviso that special measures be ago, the capture of Nanking w placed expressly on a temporary a military victory, marking, the basis and without prejudice ~ to beginning, not the end of Japan's the permanent arrangement troubles.
which would affect other Powers
with rights in the Settlement.
If this is seriously submitted as The Snowmen
a solution of the presento diffi culties in Shanghai, it reveals a lamentable lack of understand-
Discoveries by Mr. F. S.
ing of the situation in the Far Smythe, the well-known English Fast. Moreover, with no pos-mountaineer, have exploded, to sible excuse. All dealings with the satisfaction anyway of some and activities of Japan have Westerners, the legend of the shown two things, one, that her “Abominable "Snowmen," who military leaders are engaged in were supposed to lurk in the the fulfilment of a set pro-
high recesses of the Himalayas. gramme, the general lines of He has proved that the tracks which are beyond misunder- that have been found from time standing, and secondly, that if to time in the snow, and attrib she can attain her ends by polite uted by the Tibetans to a race of assurances she is prepared to monstrous and supernatural Old give them. All the assurances Men of the Mountains, belong in the world, nevertheless, would actually to a species of bear. It be needed, and then be discount is to be hoped that the Tibetans and ed, before anyone in the Bar will accept the fact, too, East would deceive himself into worry no more over the trouble the belief that the Japanese
that is Bruin on the hills. [having once gained for themsel- One of the greater benefits ves new privileges and powers in man is the fact that he is no more that have accrued to civilised Shanghai would ever give them up. Since the fall of Shanghai, Japan's intentions vis-a-vis the Settlement administration have been made plain in countless ways. The "incidents” of the past week are marked as part and parcel of the campaign of pres- sure. If the British Government, Witches and warlocks, trolls, de- for their part, are prepared to .......... give way in this instance also, rid fictions that once held him in mons, and all the brood of hor- let them say so, and not pretend thrall no longer peep and mutter either to themselves or to any-at his elbow the one else that Japan will consent darkness render only one con- “powers” ~ of to a temporary" arrangement, or at all events to voluntary to-day-
tinent "dark" to any great extent abandonment once the "tempor- Civilised man has his bogies,
ent has been put Like the Tibetan scanning
ary into
Japan's Troubles
Believing throughout
Like one, that on a lonely
road
Doth walk in fear and
dread
Because he knows, a fright-
ful fiend
Doth close behind him
tread.
the
snow, he looks fearfully the sands of time, lest, case, he espy the print of a mail-
along
ed foot. Yet he need not dread that a cloven hoof; and the disturber Chiang Kai-shek's resistance of his peace is not beyond reach would suddenly collapse and that of reason, nor invincible against a quick decision would be achiev- all bis pre