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It would be difficult to imagine a more brazen piece of effrontery than the action of Japan in protesting against the decision of the British and French governments to seize German exports on the high seas as a measure of retaliation against the sinking of Allied and neutral vessels by means

Perhaps even our complicated in- of magnetic mines cast adrift to the surance schemes were anticipated in peril of all shipping on the high seas.

the prevalent system whereby an at- In the protest lodged in London, Mr. tacker paid damages for houses that Mamoru Shigemitsu, the

suffered from his deliberate burning Japanese Ambassador, declared, according

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adversary's home-a system Domel, that British seizure of German which, it may be supposed, should cargoes would "overstep the

have reduced war risks (third party) limits retaliatory measures" and to a minimum, and which certainly was counter to previous assurances

showed a proper spirit.-Manchester given by the British Government. The Guardian." note to France, turned in by Ambas- sador Katsutaro Miyazaki, "strongly emphasised that such an action would be an infringement of the trading rights of Japan, a neutral nation.' The French Government was asked to protect the peaceful trade of neu→ tral countries as guaranteed by inter- national law.

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blockade measure have every right to make reference to international law and to plead for respect of their rights as neutrals. But when Japan makes such references and advances the plea of neutral rights Japan, who up to this very day is violating inter- national law and attacking the rights of neutrals in every conceivable sphere!-her protests assume character of hypocrisy carried to the the

ultimate extreme.

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RUSSIAN PLOT Turkey is the key to the Russian plan to dominate the Balkans. Turkey con- trols the Dardanelles, through which warships can-if

Turkey permits- enter the Black Sea from the Mediter- ranean. It is hardly necessary to say

mile-wide, whose warships Russia would like to see excluded from this four-to-five- well fortified passage. While there is a possibility of Britain's using the Dardanelles, any aggressor in the Balkans must reckon with the aid which the Allies can send to those States via the Black Sea.

The formation of a Russian-spon- sored Balkan bloc involved other ques- tions of a purely Balkan nature: the claims of Bulgaria and of Russia Russia succeeded in bringing the Turks against Rumania, for example. Had

around to the Soviet point of view, Mr. Saracoglu apparently was to be allotted the

none-too-pleasant task

of calling on M. Gafencu to tell him that Turkey had agreed with Russia that Rumania should and that Rumania's reward for per- be partitioned mitting this to take place would be increased security within a new bloc guaranteed-in the last analysis-by of States whose integrity would be Russia.

The newest Anglo-French measure against Germany undoubtedly will hit the trade of neutrals doing business with the Reich. No attempt is being made to hide that fact. It is a war measure taken by States which have proclaimed themselves at war. Japan, however, has attacked the rights of neutrals in the Far East, trampled on their interests, seized their properties, insulted and maltreated their citizens for two and half years. All this has been done without benefit of a war de-

To become the supreme influence in the Balkans, Russia needs above all claration, although the pretext and things to keep British influence out of excuse of "military necessity" have that area. Turkey is Britain's bridge invariably been advanced whenever

to the. Balkans. But Turkey stood in it was found necessary to answer the

the awkward position of having one well-grounded protests of the injured too many friends. Its friendship with neutrals.

Russia was a cardinal point in Tur-

At this very mo- ment, the

British and French Con- cessions in Tien- tsin are being sub- jected to a Japan- ese blockade which is hurting, not the Chinese Govern- ment with which

Japan is engaged in her "Special Un- declared War"

but neutrals in this struggle, and none

TO WIN THE WAR

To win this war, and to make another war less likely, we need to say quite simply to the German people-Give us a Government which accepts the principle of negotiation as a substitute for force and which is composed of people whose bond is worth hav. Ing.-Bir Ernest Benn.

but neutrals. The entire Chinese coast key. As between

nessmen

kish foreign policy.

Increasing pres- sure from Moscow has driven Turkey toward London. A pact of mutual as- sistance between Turkey and Britain is in being and re- quires only a few complementary agreements cover- ing credits, trade, and supplies of

Russia and Britain, machinery for Tur-

is blockaded by the Japanese Navy neutrality is the policy Turkey would and neutral shipping prevented from doubtless prefer to pursue. Had Russia entering Chinese ports. Neutral busi- remained content with

this, Britain are having their cargoes might have made stolen by piratical Japanese concerns ward lining up the balance to Russia. little progress to- operating under the protection of the Turkey has now however fully realised Japanese Army. Every conceivable the implications of Russian designs in device is being employed by the the Balkans. Japanese to drive all foreign business

Science except their own out of the China market.

Before Japan can claim her rights as a neutral and respect by others for international law, she must acknow- ledge the rights of neutrals in the Far East and herself learn to respect in- ternational law.-"China Weekly Re- view."

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A.R. P.!

One is reminded that incendiarism as a method of warfare is not entirely new, and that domestic, equipment for coping with it is not a twentieth- century innovation, on discovering that a fourteenth-century writer coun- selled the householders of Florence, whose houses were often burnt down during the pursuit of a neighbour's vendetta (as well as in the ordinary

Monitor."

"Christian

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JAPANESE VIEW

dread the possibility of an amicable Government circles in Chungking American response to Japanese 8- proaches for a readjustment of rela- tions between the United States and Japan, because, such a development would have "a keen effect upon Chinese isolation in world politics.” Chungking's comment that alleged Japanese attempts to conclude a com- mercial pact with the Soviet Union constituted a Japanese threat to the United States; revealed "frantic Chinese efforts to aggravate Ameri- can feelings against Japan.” "Mainichi," Shanghai.

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