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reason to expect.

The outstanding fact, which may have already determined the ultimate issue, is that the threatened German Biltzkrieg on land and in the air has not even been attempted.

The lighining, stroke was the cen- tral feature of Nazi military strategy. But in order to give real hope of success the stroke had to be delivered at once, before the enemy was able

to assemble his immediate "military resources to meet. It

Against Poland-relativey weak,

This was certainly no exag- War. geration, Far away in Japan the

And, since the American- newspapers have been discover- Japanese trade agreement comes ing that there is a racial link to an end in a few days, and between the Japanese and the might so easily be replaced by one which kept further essential Finnish peoples,

American supplies away from Only a few weeks ago there Japanese ports, is it not im-

May End the War in China

unable to receive material support Was u strong move in favour of

from her Allies in the West, and her armies III directed by the High Com- mand-the lightning war went with abang,

The world then awaited with bated breath a repetition of the fatal stroke

against France and Britain,

a Tokyo Moscow agreement; now there is a notable swing back towards the democracies.

There is of course a profound cleavage in Japanese public opinion. Very roughly, - Ithe Court circles, the

Day after day Dr. Goebbels warned .us that zero hour was at hand. Navy and the These warnings, however, proved to business men be no more than a development of want à settle

ment of the

the war of nerves.

In spite of Hitler's frontle anxiety

for a swift and dramatic anle, his Chinese war in agree- Great military chiefs declined to take the ment with responsibility of sacrificing a million Britain, the United German lives in a frontal attack on States and, France, the formidable Maginot defences, while Army officers They knew that if this dangerous and a section of the gamble did not come off the German | bureaucracy are -- or cause would be hopelessly compro-were-pro-Nazi and in mised.

favour of still further

As on land, so in the air. All the adventures in China unofficial German boasting of the while the Western havoc that was to be wrought on Powers are too busy English towns, and the paralysis that elsewhere to object. was to fall on English Bie, by in-

But that would pre- cessant large-scale air attacks, come to nothing-not for reasons of human-

suppose peace with ity, as Field-Marshal Goering has jocularly ruggested, but because British and French bombing squadrons were stationed on the door--

says

VERNON BARTLETT

of three and a half million men, way towards solving the gravo-` with another two and a half problem of transport.

million partially trained and --

some three or four million ready to go off to training camps when

there is room for them.

The Japanese hope of a victory is therefore as remote as Apart from these armies, ever. Their hope that an ar-. there are according to the well- rangement can be made with informed Chungking corres- Wang Ching-wei which will save pondent of the "New York their face, restore peace, and yet Times," well over a million and leave them with considerable. a half men organised for guerilla control in China is not so brght warfare behind the Japanese as it was, for he wants more lines.

money and a more nearly inde pendent Chinese army than the "The question of exhausting Japanese generals dare to give the nation's man power," he him.. writes, "need not even be con- sidered for 20 years." But can theso

Besides, it is not at all certain men be armed? And that the British Government, what about the oil that is essen- despite the partiality shown by tial for all the thousands of some of its members to aggres lorries that bump along that sore, would recognise Wang miracle of engineering, the Ching-wel as the ruler of any Burma highway? And the part of China By doing so it doings of Wang Ching-wei, the would not only thrust. Chiang one important deserter from the Kai-shek into the arms of Mos

would also offend Nationalist

camp since

the cow; it

American opinion at a time Japanese invasion began?

when it must be most anxious. The competition for arma- ments has become so widespread to win American sympathy, and keen that, even if most. avenues of supply had not been closed, China would have had to

step of Germany's great industrial the Soviet Union, which alone portant that the Tokyo Govern- depend more and more upon her areas and could give as good as Lon-supplies Chiang Kai-shek with ment should close its cars to own resources. don got anderhaps a little more.

considerable war materials and, the hotheads in the Army?

The only land war now in pro-whose past disputes with Japan gress is being fought out in arette have Immobilised hundreds of conditions between Finland and Cer-thousands of the best Japanese many's pseudo-ally Russia.",

troops along the frontier that At this point we enter the realm of divides Siberia from Manchukuo,

But, the Japanese now nek

The Russian attack on Finer land, then, has made it almost Imperative for Japan to.....con- clude the Chinese adventure, but the difficulty of concluding It still remains. The British

But she can supply enough and Americana each rofuse to be And so it comes about that machine-guns and rifles to keep drawn into negotiationo- which the campaign in favour of a her armies going, and such might involve other.signatories settlement of, the Sino-Japanese artillery as Chiang Kai-shek has to the Washington Nine-Power speculation. No one can say yet

war with Anglo-American advice obtained from Russia and other treaty. The law remains al whether the apparently unéquál contest in the far North will bring

and halp has become so strong countries has been carefully pre- though it has been flouted. And Russia and Germany closer together.

that probably, it could be check- served for use' in the 1940 nationalism in China, the fear in the war against the democracies themselves, had not Finland, a ed only by one of those revolu-offensive.

of which drove the Japanese to or will increase their mutual

tions the Japanese Army 80 often organises against the materials that she has lost to a result of it.

Despite the valuable suspicions.

raw their invasion, is developing a It is certain that Russia did not ex-will Russia be, with no great margin Japaneso politicians.th. pect, and had not provided against of essential war supplies, for an ad- But, as many a militarist such as wolfram, which the of the international trade unsóh Japan sho atill has certain ores, The other harassed members! venture 'against Numania or Turkey," It is certain that, without prompt or Iraq and the regions of the Middle leader has discovered in the British, for example, should be of aggressors who have donde and substantial ald, Finland cannos East in which Britain, is specially. Put, it is infinitely easter to anxious to buy lest they should well for themselves since the hope to withstand the invaders for interested, and the more confident start a war than to end ond, he sent via Russia to Germany. Japanese attack on Manchla

will all the threatened countries of The Chinese National Govern And there is apparently a newly- in 1931 will see no encouragin It is equally certain that the longer South-Eastern Europe be in their ment can claim that it now has developed oilfield in the province light if they turn their she is able to hold out the less ready ability to smash the adventure. a fully-trained conscript army of Kanau which should go some towards the East.

so sturdy a deflance.

many weeks.

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