London, July 16.
'The sinister possibilities of the Far Eastern situation are given Prominence in the newspapers, 'The Labour paper, the "Daily Werald," trusts that even now China' will recognise that her} were unwise and that will remember that oltimaton China with a view to securitg an. amicable. settlement.
The "Dally Telegraph" says was to be expected that a vigorous protest and a doriand for restitution Would follow sations Which on whatever pretext they were taken, were undoubtedly high-handed the part of a signatory ta an international agreement." Butt considers the Soviet Note oversteps the limits of diplomacy which aims at the peaceful removal of agree ments, and it expresses the opinion that perhaps neither the confiscation fon the one side nor the threat of hostilities on. the other was altogether uninfluenced by the recent installation of a Government with definite pacific tendencies in Tokyo, a ultimatum from a Russian army in Manchuria, best' which Japan would have a word to say, but he interests of "world peace, it ges that itis extremely desirable avoid a Rusto-Sapanese-Chinese langle of this kind.
The "Berlin Vorwiirts'* says that the Soviet is faced with the most Gifficalt situation that has arisen in the last decade. The alternatives are—risk of war China Russia's dificult economic condition oe letting Vladivostok and the Pacife coast fall into Japan's lap like ripe fruit. It is of the opi that the Bolsheviks will possibly finally have to appeal to the League Nations to sive them from a. hopeless. war.
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