HOW MUCH FARTHER?

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 31, 30 October 1937, Page 4

HOW MUCH FARTHER?

1 1 " Japan's recent actions in North China forfeited her the sym- ; pathy of the world," says The Times, of London. "Her impetuous . adventure in Shanghai deserves to lose her something more than sympathy. On a blatantly insufficient pretext, and withoqt adequate [ recourse to mediation, she has entered on a war with China ; and she , is conducting that war by methods which include trespassing by her : military forces on the property of neutral Powers and which have 1 already been the direct cause of heavy finaneial and material losses J to this and to other countries. How much farther is this kind of ' thing to go? The British, French and American Governments offered to guarantee the protection of Japanese nationals in Shanghai if both ' sides withdrew all extraordinary forces from the municipal area. This proposal was refused, and euch side blames the other for its non-acceptance. The fate of this rOasonable plan is likely to be the fate of all outside atteinpts at conc^'ilion. Yet the rights and property of British subjects should be v ■ inviolable on the other side of the world than they are on thit- it is time for Japan to leam that the free hand which she desires 111 Bastcrn Asia will in no ' circumstances include Jicence to glay havoc .with the lawful interesta .1 few? ynttijflrtP" •" ~-