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JAPAN'S WAR IN CHINA

The

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playing on the mainland of Asia, are steadily increasing. As the scope of the conflict with China has widened both the rewards of victory and the penalties of failure loom larger.

An Expanding Adventure: Anxiety At Home

By a Special Corresponde

"Manchester Guardian

is throug and entrust Japan ance of peace and order. It is my belief that, if left in charge of Japan, China will certainly find herself more strongly defended than otherwise. She is in danger of being beaten by only when she maintains troops but Japan

i have nothing to best If China has no troops For China

Japan

it is dangerous to keep troops, and it is safe to give up armaments.

Along with these extravagant

This conflict has already passed through three distinct phases. From the first firing at Lukouchiao an July 7 until the forcible occupation pletely defeated on all fronts that it methods will supplement the of the Peking-Tientsin area in the will face the alternative of losing all timental heavy industry which last week of July foreign diplomats power and witnessing the dissolution already being built up in Manchu and Japanese of moderate views of China into several separate re kno. It is also an important cor- hopes of turning China north of hoped against hope that the whole gimes or coming to an agreement sideration that our left flank against the Yellow River into a second affair might be only an unusually with us. I am confident some the Soviet Union will be vastly Manchukuo and reducing the re- severe local incident," capable of

Chinese statesmen, at least, will strengthened by the change of remainder of the country to complete adjustment without serious fighting. prefer the second alternative. While gime in North China and the pos Until fighting set in around Shang, the costs of the campaign are heavy, sible emergence of a friendly au-

subservience, there are apprehen- hat in mid-August there was still the part of the expenses of occupation tonomous Mongolian State.

sions which beset the consciousness possibility that the undeclared war will be paid by the Chinese. A An ebullient Japanese diplomat,

of sober and realistic Japanese, even might be on a limited scale, restrict peaceful and friendly local adminis- Mr. Toshio Shiratori, former Mini in the present atmosphere of flag- ed to North China. Now all such tration in North China offers us ter to Sweden, recently set forth a waving salutes to departing con- illusions must be discarded Japan several advantages. There will be still more ambitious plan- namely, and China are engaged in a major no further sabotage of four schemes China's total disarmament, with Ja- test of national power. The humpty of economic development in that pan altruistically assuming the bur dumpty equilibrium in the Far East, region Within a decade, if not den of "defending the country always precarious, has broken down sooner, North China can make us Mr. Shiratori's arguments on be much more independent of America half of his scheme are almost as and British India as regards our strange and naive as the idea itself The balance of power set up in supply of cotton. A develop As he wrote in the magazine "Dia the Far East by the Washington ment of the transportation system mond": political and naval treaties of 1922

and can never be restored original form.

its.

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in North China and exploitation of To speak of a greater ideal, was upset by the Japanese occupa coal and iron resources by modern would like to suggest that tion of Manchuria in 1931, which was more recently followed by Japan's repudiation of naval limita- tion on the basis which had been

器

THE

WORLD GOES BY

By "ULYSSES"

ERE are some strange stories from many parts of the world.

The robin stands for hours at the

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He was taken to the police station and thoroughly searched, but thing was found until the policeman thought of lifting the beard.

Woven into the hairs and cun- ningly hidden was a small packet of

heroin.

scripts, loud banzais at every rail. way station, wholesale contributions to the army and navy, and general of the British Ambassador to China militant patriotism The wounding

by a machine-gun bullet from a Ja- known origin that struck the Ameri- panese aeroplane, the shell of un- can flagship Augusta, causing one death and a number of injuries, the raid on the Soviet Consulate in

Tientsin are examples of the kind

of war-time “incidents” that may lead to friction with foreign Powers. The danger of such occurrences in- creases in proportion to the scope and duration of the struggle. The problem of preventing war supplies from reaching China without either declaring a formal blockade, and thereby inviting the application of the American Neutrality Act, or becoming involved in disputes with foreign Powers over searches of their vessels is likely to become in- creasingly perplexing.

Moreover, it is by no means certain either that Nanking will submit or that its submission would mean an end of Chinese resistance. “Asahi,” a leading Tokio newspaper,

A six-year-old boy of Barodan in a recent leader rather gloomily startled his mother one day by re-noted the possibility that the soldiers lating what he called incidents of of the defeated Chinese armies his former life.”

might become "Communist bandits.”

accepted at Washingtion. Up to July: it had seemed that a new balance of power, based not on paper treaties but on new elements of na- tional strength in the Orient, was coming into being. Japanese aggressive expansion had evoked counter-forces-a growing sense of! Chinese national unity, an im- pressive concetration of Soviet military and air power in Eastern

A robin which has taken to fish- Siberia, the acceleration of the mighty Singapore naval base and ing is puzzling scientists in Mani- the sweeping British programme of

toba. They claim that it is the first naval construction. These counter-case of its kind. forces have not, however, proved strong enough to restrain Japan's edge of a pool, and from time to military leaders from embarking on

time snatches venturesome minnows what is in fact, if not in name,

from the water in its bill major war of conquest which is like- ly to make some striking changes int

"I killed my mother with an axe He said he was previously born at The sequel to a short and spectacu the map of Asia. British preoccupa father of five children is alleged to Paten, a village on Baroda State. the weaker Chinese forces may be because she was a werewolf," so the Poona of parents who belonged to lar organised military drive against tions nearer home and the internal demoralisation in the Soviet Union arrested in connection with the mur- verified when he and his mother struggle

have told the Chicago police when All the details of his story were a protracted, wearing, never-ending which is reflected in the last year's der of his 60-year-old parent.

with elusive guerrilla extraordinary crop of executions,

visited Paten. There he pointed to bands. arrests, and demotions in the higher ranks

of t

the Soviet bureaucracy and the Red Army seem to assure Japan against intervention from either of these sources. The United States

Mr. P. J. Pretorias, manager of passive mood in regard to foriegn adventures is reflected in the deci-lected the following articles from Jan Orange Free State farm has col- sion to withdraw from the Philip the intestines of one of his cows, pines within the next decade and in which died after ailing for somefde Norte, has died at the age of still more serious is the paucity of the Neutrality Act which waives, in advance many of the traditional neutral rights, the assertion of which led to American participa- tion in the World War.

The body of the woman, horribly a house and said it was the one Finally, Japan's economic and hacked about head and body, was owned by the uncle with whom he financial position is not favourable discovered by the children playing had lived. in the basement of the house.

weeks:

4 pieces of bent wires,

This was corroborated by the inmates, and doctors are to make a detailed investigation into the case.

A negress of Caridade, Rio Grande

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a sustained large-scale war appropriations for hostilities which began only a few weeks ago already almost equal the whole Budget for the fiscal year, a Budget which was, incidentally, badly out of balance before the fighting began. What is

reserves in gold and foreign ex- "Mae Prets" by name, the old wo-change. The present Japanese gold

1 piece of straight wire, sticking man was engaged in domestic work reserve is about £100,000,000 sterl-

through the heart

11 pieces of tin,

3 strands of barbed wire 1 stone.

in

at the time of her death and went ing. While this is probably suffi regularly to Mass every Sunday. cient to cover the special purchases abroad and the more unfavourable

A craze for making long-distance trade balance which are necessary telephone calls without money to results of the present conflict, at commercial traveller into trouble all or even a large part of the re- pay for them has got a 23-year-old would be highly ris dissipate with the tvian police

serve when a much more serions Taking eight telephone

As for China, Japanese military men are confident of their ability to smash its military power within a few months provided there is

Workmen rebuilding a safe outside intervention or extensive the wall of a jeweller's shop foreign military aid to China. What Idan Oberstein saw something glit does Japan expect to gain from the tering between two boards. largest and most expensive military

It was a £200 diamond which the enterprise in which it has engaged jeweller's father, since dead,

the Russo-Japanese War of lost thirty years before when it dis-vertisements, he went to a

A seasoned Japanese appeared from his desk

mmarised to me

of English, German and had hotels at random from travel

telephone box, and fold the tor he was telephone mechanic and enerable old man with a dow-wanted the numbers for testing.

on & Cairo who suspec

He thus got the thrill of speaking with eight foreign subsc pers for one penny-plus the fine he will now

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