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China holds out, promises to get herself more and more deeply in the mire, though it is difficult to that short-sightedness has proceeded so far as to give warrant to the incredible rumour that without the knowledge of the local naval authorities, of the Macao authorities or of the Canton Government, an army of

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Garrick Street, London." W.C.2/50,000 men has been landed on an island off Toishan, Kwangtung. Japan has her hands sufficiently full to discourage further costly cap- tures. Nanking and reaches the Yellow River along its full length, she will still have to fight as though the war had just be- gun. It must never be forgotten that Japan is not the sole arbiter of the proposition to fight or not to fight?" If China refuses to sue for peace, carry on Japan must, losing men, spending money and ever more as the operations extend inland from the coast and main bases like Sisyphus, she will be ever rolling a great stone up the hill

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China's prospects of winning this war rest solely upon her re- fusal to hear a breath of dis couragement, upon giving Japán sufficient rope to defeat herself with her own military victories. Hong Kong, Thursday, Dec. 2, 1937 The very last occasion which be-

JAPAN IN THE MORASS

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Siaoshan Massacre

comes China's moment for con- sideration of peace is one which derives from Japanese initiative. No one wants the war to con- tinne any longer than is absolute- ly necessary. Peace is a natural. China will probably take note ambition. But not even to serve of the Italian recommendation foreign interests and politics. that she hasten to make peace could the Italian recommendation be endorsed. It might carry all with Japan while she can still

the force of logic and it would get good terms, but as a further still be utterly false to China. encouragement to sustained re- sistance, in inverse ratio to the effect intended. Circumstances have rendered suspect the mot- lives of any advice that may be

The virtual destruction of tendered by the Italian Govern-j

Siaoshan

across the bay from ment to the National Government Hangchow ranks among the most of China, and even if there beldastardly of the outrages attri- political significance in the hint buted to Japanese airmen The [raid was on a scale unprecedent- that the terms may be less severe

ed since the outbreak of hostilit than imagined, the inference re-ies. For hours on end, heavy mains that Japan is to-day the bombers rained death and des more anxious of the two parties truction on the city, without the slightest pretence of seeking to bring the conflict to an early

objective. Hundreds of conclusion.

Inon-c abatants were killed and nded. The city was ruthlessly For once fort

And why? The only struggle of endurance in which

that can possibly be time is on the side of the weaker vouchsafed is that the Japanese

were giving a terrible nation It is doubtful whether of frightfulness for the benefit the Japanese position to dictate of Hangchow, a warming that terms will ever be stronger than China's famous beauty spot might it is to-day That her resources be treated similarly if the milit are subject ta strain and that the ary commander failed to strain is being felt could no betrender the town without further more clearly demonstrated

It is dificult by the inability, as far as can be inded people to guage the judged, of maintaining full acti-mentality which gives authority vity on the North China front for such shocking outrages We and the Shanghai front at one can only imagine some such

the same time. Were this soming as that the fate of conomically wise or possible, the own Siaoshan would, noral effect of simultaneous of its sequestered obscurity, sweeping pro would clearly unobserved, whereas, simila

greater than of any dramaticlagery at Hangchow wonl victory on the Shanghai frontistir the world. Siaoshan” while, North China rest

the disaster with

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