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of a Russo-Japanese War at some time or other to be accepted in Moscow) upon removing one of them, if possible, at the most propitious opportunity. For Rus- sia, there could hardly come a more favourable moment than 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2. the present, when Japan is deep-
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feeling the effects severely. All communications intended for Tokyos activity in redisposal of publication should be ddressed to her forces on a large scale" is stupid unless it denotes appre- the Editor, and be accompanied by hension that this is, indeed, to be the Writer's Name and Address, guarded against. Whether such a danger really exists is another not necessarily for insertion but að matter. In the absence of inde
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pendent observation, the truth concerning the recent hostilities is obscured by a heavy fog of counter-propa- propaganda and ganda. Factors worth considera
are Tokyo's offer of a tion boundary commission upon res- toration of what the Japanese held to be the status quo ante, and Russia's stiffness in Moscow at every stage of the Incident. Hong Kong, Friday, August 5, 1935.. Somehow the air of complete in-
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RUSSIA AND JAPAN side.
London having decided that Democratic Hustings Moscow is completely blameless
in the matter of the Changhu or Fascist Hurdles? feng Incident, there should
be
Not long ago, when the little more to be said. All sus- picion of deliberate provocation National Fitness Campaign was with the object of relieving Jap-being launched in Britain, the anese pressure on China is re- suggestion was made that Mem- moved: Japan will soon, perhaps, bers of the House of Commons get her wayward military com- should give a lead to the nation. manders on the spot under con-It was even suggested that a trol and the trouble will be settl gymnasium should be built in the ed peaceably and amicably with- Palace of Westminster where out any further ado. It is all Members could do their daily But somehow Members so very simple: so simple, indeed, dozen. that it sounds altogether too of Parliament did not take too good to be true. There are, after kindly to the idea most back all, a number of circumstances benches claiming that the feat of which it is necessary discreetly catching the Speaker's eye in- to overlook to enable this very volved sufficient exercise of the comforting analysis to be so easi-knee joints and straining of neck ly reached. It seems odd, for muscles to keep even the fattest instance, that Tokyo should show fit. And anyhow, if Members its mettle by sending thousands wanted to walk, well, what were of additional troops to enable the diversion lobbies for? It was headstrong local commanders to bad enough for many an honour- ̈ defy with even greater abandon able and gallant die-hard-to...
the mechanise his beloved cavalry official instructions from Japanese Cabinet. It seems equal without adding insult to injury. ly odd, if the official reports carry by confronting him with a mech- of anical horse. Not even the bit- in them the slightest germ.
in terest of the Government's op- truth, that the Soviet forces the Changkufeng sector should ponents wished to see it fall over · illustrate their purely defensive a horizontal bar, and it was gen- attitude by aerial bombardments erally agreed that the fitness list and shelling of areas inside Kor- for political leadership should re- ean territory There seems, more- main one of brain rather than be no dispute that the brawn, of dialectics rather than Arst move in the game was made acrobatics. The House is able to by, the Soviet forces in the area. breathe freely again in the know- Legal justification for the occupa ledge that the ery of "Divide" is tion of Changkufeng Hill" by not a command to do the splits. Russia is not now contested, in But to Mussolini, this concep London. It seems to be a fact, tion of government by free dis- nevertheless, that the claim has cussion is just so much decadent never been strenuously asserted nonsense. He has been holding unti this particular moment, new elections to the National
must
be regarded as Directorate of the Fascist Party strangely chosen unless dictated and illustrating to the world how by a political motive. Using forces superior are his political methods puzzlingly large for a party to those of democracy. The can- taken by surprise, Japanese (didates, many of them respectable, challenge to the claim was swift, middle aged and elderly gentle and, as fer as can be judged, men, were brought into the effective, despite Soviet asser- arena, and here they proved their
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under their control. On these live horses, vaulting off a spring- facts alone, the unanimous will board through burning hoops and ingness of the London press to vaulting over a row of rifles with assume that all is for the best în fixed bayonets standing upright: in. the best of all possible worlds Many of them, according to the carries a stronger suggestion of reports, were injured. No one, dit shfulness than of close analy- of course, will deny that telecom
of the progress of events. tions are necessary, even in
cold logic of the situation best regulated states, but the 10?
ruly indicate, Rus surely, is carrying the ideas of fo in a swift members risking their seats??;.- en-]just a little too far.. okusi