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The China Mail

Ninety-Third Year of Publication

The advantages and disadvant- ages of this course have been long and acutely debated in Tokyo. The Japanese Navy, having a year's supply of its own

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Hong Kong, Monday, February 7, 1938 south coast. It would make great

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Appearances in

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"face" for Japan to apply in this region against British trade (Great Britain being the declared villain of the piece), Britain's own war-time practices in mas- tery of the sea. There remains,

even if

ese wartime blockade with scru-

able chances of friction with Great Britain and the United

the

that have to do with Sino-Japan- of course, the now difficult line of ese hostilities are exceedingly de- foreign supply for China through ceptive and just as it is possible outer Mongolia. But that there is no purpose in the Feutral shipping treat a Japan- visit of Dr. H. H. Kung to Hong pulous respect, there are formid- Kong other than the transaction of urgent personal business, 80 it is possible that the ruthless States. Notoriously Tokyo has widespread onslaught of the

hesitated in the knowledge that, Japanese navy in

the the last week in China in

no more than with declaration of war, an outburst of unpleasantness no choice but to invoke the Neu- American President would have lacking specific purpose. At trality Act, prohibiting any ex- the same time, the Japanese fleet concentration in surround- United States

ports of war supplies from

to Japan unless ing waters is, in itself, porten-carried in Japanese ships. This tious and taken in conjunction is but one deterrent. with the most recent statements insistence, in war, upon treating Japanese of Prince Konoye-admitting the Shanghai International Settle- possibility of an open declaration ment as Chinese territory, and its of war in the near future- it foreign residents as having no may well be that the long-discuss rights beyond those of neutrals ed invasion of South China is

in an invaded country, would about to materialise..

raise a host of new troubles with Japan is faced by this difficulty. the Powers. Retirement of their Unless a punitive expedition military forces might even which is the official style of this demanded. Any repetition of undeclared war-prescribes some Yangtse ruffianism at limit of its own to the "punish-Kong would invite British coun- Hong ment,” that "punishment" will ter-measures of which Japan has presumably continue for so long had as yet no experience. The as. China remains impenitent gravity of Tokyo's imminent de- The Chinese, it may be presum-cision should from these indica- ed, will refuse to cry "Enough!" tions be sufficiently obvious. so long as they believe that re-

sistance may gradually bring Toot

about one or both of two things

be

-economic exhaustion of Japan The locomotive's toot. has... en- and intervention by one or more tered the tootological laboratory. strong Powers. She has nothing The Union Pacific railway in the to lose by such a policy; any United States has had a corps of other would involve acceptance experts analysing the cost of a of the principle of vassalage. toot and as a result the toparch The possibilities in the alterna- of tootology has announced that tive are quite incalculable, and if every toot of the tooter costs the Japan should not now listen to railroad the huge and almost in- .counsels of caution, the conse- comprehensible sum of one- quences can be conjectured only eighth of a cent. Presumably with intense anxiety. Whatever the laboratory also took up the Japan's staying power may be, cost of a tootle, but no report there is no disguising her thus far has been made. supreme desire for early termina When it is considered that one tion of the campaign. Behind full-grown, and vigorous engine all the bragging Japan is gravely may develop a tooter capable of uneasy. Mr. Nathaniel Peffer, producing a thousand or more writing in the New York Times toots in a day, the importance of soon after his return from the this investigation becomes ap- Far East, and Mr. de Vere Red-parent. Extravagance and man, writing from Tokyo con-waste in the dissemination of temporaneously .to. "Oriental toots must cease.

Even the Affairs, agree in diagnosing gentle little toot that is released Japan's growing fear that her as the signal of a passing en- commitment to an indefinite war gineer to the good wife on the in China will imperil her position back steps must be omitted. A when it is in Tokyo always great many toots are necessary when, not if Russia throws her to the safety of the public, but weight into this struggle. The even these should be trimmed to political authorities in Tokyo are a point where it may be possible for caution; their voice is being to shoot them across the country- increasingly suppressed. The side at a cost of not more than Army has been credited, also, one-twelfth of a cent per toot. with some misgivings. But it As a matter of fact, most of is fairly well known by British the toots are of such a robust observers in the Far East that character that complaints of their the Japanese Navy is pressing sleep-stealing propensities have upon Imperial Headquarters the become quite general It is supreme decision- for a declara-evident that the time is ripe for tion of war and the ruthless pro- a reorganisation of the vast toot- secution of it, whatever the ing system which prevails all

over the globe.

consequences.