Case for Clear Thinking and Facing Facts Mr, T. V. Soong, Minister of Finance, in an interview the Tsinan incident, state "The present situation between: China and Japan is eriticn) inthe extreme, all the more reason why there should be clear thinking and fearless facing of facts on both sides. The objective facts are that, violation of what is commonly held 9s international law, Tanded troops on Chinese (which is quite different from the international troops in wst year), that rival Chinese armies clashed, r¢= sulting in the defeat of the side which is popularly, sale though possible erroneously, hele as the side supported by the Japanese, thus bringing the victorious Chinese Nationalist troops face to face with the Japanese army of occupation. The ground is thus set for a tragedy, an explosion almost certain though the particular spark causing the explosion could not be foretold, nor is it indeed of any great cal "importance. Nor yet is it helpful for us to speculate whether or not the Jap ese deliberately created an incident that the incident happens to be helpful to the Japanese Cabinet, we must admit, is in itself no pr that the Japanese first opened fire.
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