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October 29, 1937
WHITHER JAPAN?
(Dady Press, October 23, 1937) While the world as a whole is unanimous in its denunciation of the tactics adopted by the Japanese in their undeclared war against China, the militarists of Japan continue to make daily statements regarding the policy that they seem so determined to prosecute- -namely the "chas- tising of China until she is too faint to fight.
In this connection we will endeavour to insert a thought into the metallic minds of Japan's If they war-mongering rulers. think for a moment that China will bow to their aggression-anı aggression that is now commonly accepted to be nothing less than brigandage with murder, then they shall be rudely awakened, because just as they are bent on going on until their objective is gained, so are the Chinese ready to fight to the last man, and Japan has already had in this present escapade more than one lesson of what can be accom-
plished in the way of defence by a China united as a body and
united in soul.
The eyes of the world have long since become focussed on (Continued on next Column)
A Disgrace To The Colony
(Continued from page 600) with heroin.' It is for this very reason that the police must with out further delay tackle this problem with the firmness i1 demands. On the face of it.
there must be something tragic- ally amiss with the Polic Department or its officers if they fail to detect what other people are able to "smell" in Hong Kong streets.
Let us state quite plainly that there is a strong feeling among those who have made it their business to probe deeply into this matter, that the position is a scandalous and a shocking dis- grace to the British administra- | tion of this Colony.
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H.M.S. Sheffield at Sheerness before leaving for trials off Spithead. She is a 9,000-ton cruiser and carries 12 six-inch guns.
(Continued from previous Column) | (Continued from previous Column) the Sino-Japanese conflict. It is liberty of action. That means true that the Press have also that things have now come to an intolerable state that "played up" the Mediterranean such question, the Spanish civil war, Japan must play a lone hand Palestine, the Nyon Conference, against the world if necessary. and the Hitler-Mussolini conver- but to judge from the high feel- sations in Berlin, but it is equally | ing against them it seems an true that the main topic of con- extremely dangerous game for versation has been and still is them to play.
the Far Eastern situation, and this because the whole of the civilised world has been shocked
what the Japanese are by pleased to call their "military operations.'
The opinion is even held in some quarters that the necessity for world action might not even arise, as the anti-militarist fac- tions in Japan are reported to be gaining in power to such an operations indeed! extent that the masters of Japan The aerial attacks on innocent
may very soon have to cry "halt" villagers in their defenceless
or they will be obliged to devote hamlets and the bombing of all their energies and attentions refugee centres-that is practic-in maintaining peace and order ally the tone
gallant inside their own country. Japanese attack.
Military
her knees.
of the
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Japan's object, it has been stated
in columns, is to "beat China to frequently these
but since the Japanese appear to have at last awakened to the fact that every homb dropped and every round fired only has the effect of bringing the Chinese more closely together, they are now about to embark another phase of "military operations."
operations." It has been rumoured that Japan may denounce the Nine-Power Treaty in order, it is presumed, to enable (Continued on next Column)
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To take the other view, it would be the best thing that can combined in a perfectly peaceful happen if all the great Powers
economic war Already the Japanese exporters against Japan.
are grumbling about the poor state of business. How can they hope to send any of their own goods abroad when every available ship is commandeered to carry troops to North China? For that is exactly the position in Japan to-day, and if the out- side world refuses to trade with
her, where will the Land of the Rising Sun be?
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