"INVITED TROUBLE"
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Did Japan Attempt to Provoke Incidents? LONDON PRESS WARNING
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(Beceived 4, 2.45 p.m.) LONDON, Deo. 3. Commenting on the Japanese "victory march" at Shanghai, The Times, in a leader, says: "To make a gratuitdus display of military pomp through several miles of streets crowded with Chinese was to invite outrages. The Shanghai Municipal .Couneil may well be relieved that nothing worse occurred. "The Japanese were trailing their coat, but what they hoped to gaiji by that is not clear. Not even the most short-sighted of their military leaders can suppose that they would be permitted to seize control of the International Settlement on such a slender pretext as they went out of their way to manufacture. "Powers with interests in Cliina have put up with a great deal from Japan, but it would be a mistake for Japan fo exaggerate the amount of damage she has done them and base on that, how much further she can go with impunity. "Japan certainly has gone very far, but it would be imprudent of her to subjeet foreign interests in China more th"/t what they have come to regard as fair wear and tear." l.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 61, 4 December 1937, Page 5
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