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This has been backed by a Ja-- panese-fostered vilification of everything British. The British, it appears, are responsible for the present hostilities, Commu- nism, General Chiang Kai-shek, the bombing of Chungking and the murder and rape of hundreds of hapless civilians.

Before long, the Japanese will probably also blame Britain for 7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2 Japanese pressure in North

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Hong Kong, Friday, July 7, 1939.

TIENTSIN

China prior to 1937.

The campaign, seems to indi- cate that whatever Tokyo thinks, the Army does not intend the Tientsin dispute to be settled.

Negotiations between two par- ties to a dispute are normally in- tended to represent a serious at- tempt to arrive at a compromise: more or less satisfactory to both. sides.

The clear hint of Japanese mil-- fitary adoption of a stiff-necked, intransigent attitude before the negotiations start nullifies their: value at once; such negotiations. can only end in total failure. :

Prospects of a satisfactory set-

Passing Of Th tlement of the Tientsin dispute Third Floor Up appear, on the eve of the Anglo-

Japanese. talks in Tokyo, to be A report, published recently poor indeed.

The British posi-by the advisory council of the tion is clear; the question at is Science Museum in London, holds sue need be but a local matter, that it is unwise to erect mu- concerning the fate of certain

seums with more than three stor-- alleged Chinese terrorists.

ies of exhibition galleries; for In Britain, a man is presumed the public are averse Voluntar- innocent until he is proved guil-

ily to mounting higher, and up-- ty; a magistrate will not issue a warrant for his arrest until he per galleries remain unvisited mausoleums." One feels, all the is satisfied that there is sufficient same, that highbrows would not evidence in support of a charge.be lacking in the upper story; No evidence that the Chinese are, but one can quite appreciate that, în fact, terrorists has been plac-in their quest for knowledge, ed before the British authorities casual students might renounce in Tientsin, beyond the mere statement by the Japanese, and the higher flights, out of consi-

deration for their "understand-- hence the British authorities are

ings." not in a position to hand them over. As Lord Maugham point- That is to assume that they ed out in his Mansion House must climb step by step; but is speech on Tuesday night, equal-there any reason why their pro-- ity of justice, in the British gress should not be made less - toilsome, why stairs should not. view, is greater than expe- be accompanied by lifts to speed

diency.

If that were the only issue, or with such aids the museum..

the ascent to Pierian heights? if it were the primary issue, the should soon be able to look back. Tientsin dispute would undoubt-

edly be capable of ready adjust-on the time when ment without any departure from principle by the British Govern- ment.

Two complicating factors have,

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sud.

den flight,

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however, been introduced. In A Collection will

the first place, the Japanese

Army holds itself to be above be Taken

civil courts and civil procedure;

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as witness their refusal to ten- The bell-book-and-candle cere-- der evidence to the inquests in monial adopted by two Norfolk Shanghai on Dr. Lillie and Mr. clergymen to rid their parishes - Tinkler. This goes far to ex of alleged ghostly influences- plain the failure to tender any might have drawn a smile from “evidence' to the British Author-Archbishop Thomson, who once ities in Tientsin which would es claimed to have found a very tablish a prima facie case justi- much simpler method of exor- fying surrender of the alleged cism. On one occasion, when.. terrorists. Then, lest this ar staying at an old country house, bitrary attitude of the Japanese he was put into an alleged haunt-- military should be insufficient British insistence upon legal processes has been the occasion for thè of wider demands, imp merely upon individu law but upon the who foreign treaty rights

The Japanese have truculently announced that, unless the tish agree to the đêm their entirety, the blo the British Concession indignities that have ied it, will

chamber. In the morning his singked anxiously if he had disturbed. "Well, yes," Dr. Thomson. “About mid- night · I heard a knock at the “Oh, that would be the ghost,” exclaimed she. "That if exactly how he acts. Whatever did you do?” “I said, "Com and in came old sallow looking in man. I got out of bed and

up to him. "Do you belong this house? - I asked