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such a proposal should wear so unpractical and belated an air, although the latest moves by the Japanese suggest that unofficially it may be permitted to acquire such a status. For centuries the system of Cities of Refuge were extremely useful in providing a protective delay until enquiry cloud be made into a quarrel. It would be too much to say that they were never violated, but the very fact that the new cases of violation were carefully record-

Hong Kong, Thursday, Sept. 2, 1934-ed to the shame of the lawbreak

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ers shows that the sanctity of the retreat was usually quite enough to defeat even the most powerful pursuers Where in all War inevitably involves replace where that respect or awe the world to day is there any fugees. The arrival of the first which used to protect the “num- shipload in Hong Kong brought erous" would be strong enough to home to even the least politically stop the aggressor? Even the minded citizen the two mam to attract shell fire, on the ex- Red Cross of Geneva serves only facts of the situation, that the case that possibly the hospital whole of the China Coast is one may be sheltering a stock of unit, and that nobody can be so

munitions. It is true that im pacific as not to be embroiled in obligations of non-belligerency, munity from attack does imply the melee once war begins. One but whether such suspicions are of the first signs in Central China justified or not, the failure to that all attempts to "localise keep anything sacred remains as

a disgrace to our time. the break-down of respect for in- ternational law and order had

We ought to remember that the Treaty Ports themselves were failed was the cancellation of the originally Cities of Refuge. They air mail schedules and the recall were founded on an implicit ob of all civil aircraft to Nanking tack should be earned by absten- ligation that immunity from at- How rapidly men accept the tion from use of the reserved latest inventions and adopt them area as a base of aggressive into the routine of life! Most of operations. The obligation has the schedules bad only been got been faithfully observed except into working order during the Tientsin. This does not seem to by the Japanese in Shanghai and current year, but already all man-be a question that concerns ner of transactions had come to Chinese and Japanese alone. depend on the airmail running re Surely it is the duty of the European Powers whose citizens gularly, and the total of bargains

use these Concessions to see that thwarted and private arrange the implied obligation is observ- ments thrown into confusion by ed. The experience of 1932 and the suspension of the new ra-

fits sequel proves that there is no pidity of communication is past amenities and a policy of wait- solution to be found in diplomatic

computation. To that must beland-see. The use of the Inter- added the shock to confidence in national Settlement at Shanghai future regularity. And to that for peaceful commerce is far too valuable for us to allow it to be must be added a much greater endangered because one nation destruction of confidence in the abuses it by parading the streets safety

life due to the with

outrages, all

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