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The hostilities begun in 1937 struction was deferred only to have continued nearly four years, make it more effective have caused countless suffering to millions of people and have led to the occupation of all China's ports and many great clties, but have not yet brought Japan what she sought nor altered the will of the Chinese people to be masters their own destiny.
war:
NUISANCE RAIDS ON LONDON
Raider Downed Over Essex Coast
What Germany said and is say-
LONDON, Feb. + "\\Reuter) ing to Japan is that it she will
made by several take ner courage in both hands Raids were
enemy aircraft flying singly over all she covets lies in her grasp.
What Germany wants is Japan the east and south-east coast of Britain during yesterday morning to become embroiled in the as the service thereby rendered and afternoon.
Bombs were dropped at several Germany would be obvious,
But, If in the event Japan places in London, in East Anglia VILLAIN OF PIECE
should not win, that does not and in Kent. Some damage was The Japanese public did not sup-matter for Germany, for at worst!
done and a few people were killed pose for a moment that the cam)-
all three Powers would have been in a Kent coast town. þaign against China would be"
weakened and it is no part of the
of
An enemy bomber was shot anything but a short and glorious Hitlerian plan that Japan occupy down by R.A.F. Aghters over.
affair.
i
To explath ine prolongation or the condict it became necessary to lay the blame un somebody and while many were blamed the Tasnim grew for portraying Great Britain as the chlet villain of the piec
"
This was more natural because Britain has wider interests and associations in China than any.
ע
It is as a
the
Essex coast in the afternoon. an equal place with Germany
Reports from various sources the new world order. pawn not as a partner that she is suggest that all the crew of the destroyed German boaber perish- destined to play her new role.
ed.
THREAT TO BRITAIN
Over London, raiders indulged From Mr. Matsuoka's speech in discriminate bombing and the have Germany may well judge that raids generally appeared to her blandishments have not been no particular objective beyond in vain. At first sight the speech,, creating a nuisance. would appear to contain threats
Thailand and the
other power. Her elimination. against the security not only of therefore, was the primary objec-indo-China, tive. In the eventual elimination Netherlands East Indies but alan of all western pfluence trom Britain and the U.S.A.
It is a tall order ir Japan elects
China
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DANISH SHIPPING
IN AMERICAS. NEW YORK, Feb. 4 (Reuter)-- Thirty-eight Danish ships totalling While the sympathy of the Bri-
to attack there is such a thing over 250,000 tons, now idle in 1'sh peop: hus in the main been
as a vigorous and Tesolute
American ports, may, if the United with the Chinese, and while, like fence with all those weapons of States Government approve, carry other countries, Britain has re-modern war to which Mr. Mat-cargoes to Britain, says the news- dered certain material assistance, suoka referred and with which paper, the World Telegram. nelther sympatiy tur such limited
Twenty other ships in South assistance would itself have been Japan is yet unfamiliar.
The real threats of Mr. Matsuo-American ports may be released, responsible for the vigour of Chika were not against the security the paper adds.
nese resistance.
For this Japan an claim the
of the countries mentioned but
credit. By her action in attempt-against the peace, prosperity, hap. WEATHER REPORT
piness and welfare of the Jap- anese people.
Hongkong Royal Observatory
10 am.. Feb. 4.
level), 30.25
Ing to dominate China she aroused in the Chinese nation 1 unity, will to resist and combative power which brought them neither spiri- Barometer. (at sea
which had never previously been seen in a normally peaceloving people
After ten years of conquest
ins. tuai ror material well-being, after were which lives
Temperature, 62 F. a struggle in What Japan aroused she now lost and deprivations sufered to Humidity, 66 per cent. seeks to quell and it is perhaps no purpose they are being exnort-Wind Direction. E.S.E.
ed to believe that aggression is Wind Force (Beaufort) 2 not surprising that she seeks to lay the blame elsewhere..
CHINA IMPASSE
2
a good investment and although Temperature: Maximum yesterday
It has not paid dividends hitherto
HUMAN VALUES
64 F
Temperature: Minimum last night,
55 P Rainfall for 24 hrs.
today, nu.
ending 10to
Total rainfall since January
3.81 Ins.
1st.
hu- Against an average of, 1.47 ins. Hit-Sunset tonight, 6.14 p.m. from Sunrise tomorrow. 7.01 a.m.
be-
4 p.m., Feb. 4.
a further effort, more capital out, With al apparent impasse inlay and sacrifice will bring them China, the war in Europe appear- not only dividends but a sub ed to present possibilities to stantial bonus. Japan. During the preliminary Inactivity she was content to re-
Such cynical disregard of main passive but when, at the end of June, 1940, Germany could man values might come from
But it comes claim to have overrun and con-ier himself. auered Poland, Denmark, Holland, those leaders in Japan who Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg and lieve in Germany's star and are Barometer (at sea level), 30.12 ths.
Temperature, 63 F. France, there was surely proof, if hypnotised by it.
That their frenzied finance and Humidity, 72 per cent. ever proof was, needed, that aggres-
bad politics may now" push the Wind Direction, E. sion does pay.
irretrievable disasters wind Force (Beaufort),, 3. Japan changed her government people to
Maximum temperature, 67 F. and the new government, of which means nothing.
Germany has spoken and what Minimum temperature. 55 F. Mr. Matsuoka has been the spokes-
Rainfall, nil. man, after little preliminary a German says must be true:
It is a solemn thought that not hesitation, signed pact with Germany and Italy openly ranging many decades ago, great men led Japan with Britain's enemies and Japan to greatness, threatening the U.S.A. if she dared to intervene.
a
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Okuma Yamatata.
and Salonii were names with which
It was perhaps a pity that al-to conjure. ready by the time the paet was signed it had
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Such men may have had dreams apparent of empire but they did not suffer that the Immediate overthrow the folly of grandeur
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of Great Britain promised by they seek blindly for imperfect Hitler to the world at large and to triends.
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at century they transformed a feu- This fact became patent and
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