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dal country to that of a State comparable, in respect of its in- dustry, its armaments, and its natural scientific equipment with any great western Power.
So
of the West-its guns, its air- It is up to date in its imitation
planes, its bombs are second to none in efficiency. Morally far as Government action is con- cerned it is also imitative, but the standards which it appears to follow are those of 100 years ago, When Japan is charged with pro- moting the opium traffic in those parts of China which are under its control, it put up all sorts of
excuses.
But the opium traffic which is now being extended in China seems to be directly stimulated by the Japanese military, author- ities.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek goes so far as to maintain that the Japanese are using opium de- liberately to weaken the morale and resistance of the Chinese people. That may be a misinter- pretation. But the fact remains that Japanese control in China is tending to undo the humane efforts of many countries.
This is peculiarly disturbing because it shows that Japan, as
Hong Kong, Saturday, August 13, 1938. at present governed, has risen to
CHANGKUFENG .
ARMISTICE
power and influence without hav- ing the moral conceptions or the moral practices which we think of as belonging to our own time. But it is the military element How far the truce arranged in which is charged with respon- the Changkufeng Incident car-sibility for promoting the odious ries the participants towards a trade in opium just as it is res- lasting settlement is beyond, ap-ponsible for bombarding Canton praisal at the moment. Discre- and many other open cities. tion as the wiser part of valour It is well that this should be very obviously decided the Jap realised. It is important for anese acceptance of M. Litvinoff's Japan as well as for its enemies, formula for the armistice, but since the policy of the militarists long meetings of the Supreme under which it is at present ruled War Council and a coterie of is one which can only discredit Japanese military experts were its modernism and hinder its pro- necessary before the pressure of gress toward real civilisation. expediency prevailed, above other
counsels, and on the view that
the agreement developed out of
a form of duress the permanency Palestine
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of any outcome is open to ques- tion. There is sufficient. indica- Mr. Malcolm Macdonald has tion in an objective study of the learned little as a result of his progress of developments of a visit to Palestine except the sharp diplomatic setback for gravity of the problem. Periods Japanese militarists who have of terrorism such as British become accustomed to getting authorities are now attempting their own way that it would be to deal with are not new. They wiser for the Soviet to assume symbolise the determination of that Japan and the Kwantung the Arabs not to accept a situa- Army "are" biding their time tion which arose not long after rather than knuckling down. This the World War as a result of obviously is not the time for British commitments to the Jew- Tokyo to become involved in aish race-commitments the Arabs large-scale war on a second front. considered as inconsistent with The campaign in China is en-promises they had received. But countering serious difficulties and both Arabs and Jews, as well as these will interisify as progress the British Government, are fac is made towards Hankow. The ed to-day with a condition, not terrain is such that the strategia hypothesis. To-day the ques- cal opening for the pincer operation is how these two peoples'can- tion which led to speedy capture learn to live together, and in of Hsuchow when the Big Push what way the conditions under was made has eluded the study of which they must learn this can experts on the spot. In any be improved. While the work case, the Japanese are pursuing goes forward terrorists are
a will o' the wisp, a fanciful idea tempted to think they can in that the capture of Hankow may fluence the outcome in their own end hostilities in China. In the behalf. by riots and killings. It meantime, the truce at Changku- is the same mistake that cha feng merely ends actual hostili-pions of force the world ties, without settling anything. making to-day. ́ ́ ́Where The tension remains and a great ing together would bring many more troops than Japan ent and extensive imp can really afford are pinned down in the lot of both to Manchuria China would have dispute, attempts to been happier had Busälä Joined physical bullying only her as a belligerent, but even as genuine settlement. things are she has much for illustrates the point which to thank Moscow.
Japan And Opium
current disorders. occupy the atten until order is only then, cen- toward a fair from Arabic-Jawidh- - meulaval fou achieved.