Tea-shop talk merely echoes the daily papers. America, England and France are in high favour as leading the way for China to have equality and independence, Japan causes anxiety, older men hope for negotiation, "Students say "fight", but as to when and where -and how, they fare not very explicit, 'To an old-timer it looks as if:—To fight, Japan wins; To trade, China wins; 'To arbitrate, both lose, In talking' with Chinese, one gets the impression that General Chiang, Kai-shek, is steadily gaining the favour and confidence of his countrymen. One who has fought, can fight and will fight, but prefers to nogotinte, to conciliate and to harmonize grips the imagination of the pence-loving people. Much is hoped to result from the Nanking Conference.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.