London, May 19, Referring in the course of a Jender to "this new,—momentous step." namely, the Japanese morandum to the Peking and Nanking Governments, the "Timea" says that the Japanese Goverment has almost. involuntarily—-impelled py, amlety for its own intorenta in lanchuria—spoken of 'a united China." 'That phrase, the: puper ays, spoken by such' powerful neighbour at this moment of oxtreme confusion, should have a profound effect in China, A great rom ponsibility, the "Times declares, Feats on Japan: the consequences of her action cannot be easily measur 'The "Times" says in conclusion that wine restraint on the purt of Japan, however, may greatly ade vance' the solution of the Chinese problem. "Her own national inter tests," the paper adverts, "her poste tion'as a teading Power among the Far Eastern nations are plainly at stake in such an enterprise."
The "Manchester Guardia ideas that the Japanese ments Note contains hut serious menace, "One might, the paper declares, "support Mar churia a Japanese provines instend of ast nominally, a Chi
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