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Hong Kong, Tuesday, August 10, 1937 These men were officers of the old

WAR CLOUDS

regime, trained in Tsarist days, whose loyalty was given to the Army itself, without regard to the economic theory of the Gov- ernment. They were too efficient, The significance of Japan's and Stalin suddenly became jea- abandonment of the Yangtze leus of them as the greatest pow- Valley is so obvious as to require er in the State. At once the no emphasis. Japan intends to Kwantung Army became active go on with the programme map-again. ped out in North Camma, but has There have been local panics no desire to be faced with diver- sions in other parts of the coun- try. There is every prospect, so far as it can be assured by Jap

Boycott over a wide area.. of Japan has been adopted. The

anese action, therefore, that the reduction of a national

has been halted, for hostilities will be localised even a prolongation of the pre- one of those blessed words like sent disorder must lead to expen- Mesopotamia than can be stretch-diture on armaments that would make solvency unattainable. ed to mean anything. Even

a local disorder the destruction There is very little localisation” of Nankai University and am about these results. Whence can dreds of other buildings at Then we expect the cooling breeze of tsin and the loss of some hun common sense that will relieve the heated brow of Japanese dreds of lives, is a fairly severe form of disorder, and it is impos-politicians who have power even sible to think of any homogene-jagainst the Army that they do ous nation admitting any polite not know how to use? description that would minimise

its importance. After all, we

have been told that the Spanish]

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civil war has been localised, but Mirth in the Afternoon that only means that the belli- gerent parties in Spain are being left to exterminate each other. and if by some such compromise lately that the most difficult time as the restoration of the monar-to be funny is between three and chy actual fighting should be four in the afternoon. It seems ended, Spain would be left bled a little unfair that great humor- white and unable to perform the ists in their efforts to leave "foot- duties of a neutral in case of a prints on the sands of time" major war, or to refuse claims for should have a difficulty, beyond payment in kind of debts which that of other great men, with the she will certainly not be able to sand that runs through the hour- discharge in cash.

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