AN AMERICAN VIEW.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 14, 9 October 1937, Page 4

AN AMERICAN VIEW.

— ''The advantage lies with Japan in Its latest resort to highway--robbery tactics, Cvcn though China's national unity, figbting spirit and ecoHomic sfafus are at a far higher level than in 1931. Chiang Kai-shek has done much to advance his country, but has barely made a start on the task of getting China ready for a major war with Japan. The invaders are meeting greater opposition than in their conquest of Manchuria. It is doubtful, however, that the Nanking Government is prepared to risk its life by a wholesale effort to blast Japan out of the Northern Provinces. We are far remqved from realising the dream of a "warless world" that captured men'simaginations two decades ago. Without an effective international organisation to restrain the war lords, the plight of the weak nation is a precarious one. China's huge manpower may some day rally and drive out the invaders, but meanwhile, Chinese territory is being pillaged and Chinese cities are being laid in ruins. Because treaties and the League peace machiuery have failed, another act of international highway robbery is being committed. — St. Louis PostDispatch (U.S.A.). ;