own authorities. It a sorry spectacle.
Is it not time that the Chinese tried to clear their eyes in respect of Japan and to see things in proper perspective? Granting for argument's sake that they have just grievances against the Island Kingdom, what good can they imagine they will do themselves allowing the by Boycott Committee to pursue its robberies unchecked and, be it remembered, for-the sole enrichment of its members? The comforting thought that Japan is being made to suffer horribly in return for all she has made China suffer was conclusively shown in Mr. Sokolsky's _illuminating article yesterday to be pure delusion. China represents" only nineteen -per cent., now of Japan's exports and the wildest boycotter does not flatter himself that this can all be destroyed. The momentary loss to Osaka is not more than five or six per cent. and the banks can easily carry the firms who are losing that part of the trade, until sanity returns in Chi The fact is that, what with war, bandits and political disturbances, China has been such 'a very bad market for the past ten years, that Japan has had to lay herself out to find others, and now America is far and away her best customer. The further thought in Chinese minds, that things may be made so uncomfortable for Japan that the members of the Diet will rise and hurl Baron Tanaka from power, is moonshine. Japanese parliamentarians, like their kin all over the worl sionally use China as a convenient stick with which to be labour the Premier for their own ends; but if a serious crisis arose abroad, nothing is more certain than that the Japanese people, politicians included, would stand solidly behind their Government, as indeed was seen inthe Tsi owing to recent changes, Baron Tanaka has now a comfortable working majority in the Diet which should serve him for his full natural term of office.
Lastly, have the Chinese thought how badly the boycott will tell against themselves in ithe. eyes of other -countries, whom they certainly will not be uble to persuade -that all the wrong-doing is on the Japanese side? They have for so long been allowed to think that they only have to shout loud enough to get anything they want, that they have grown careless, The realities are very different from [what they were eighteen months ago. There is hardly a nation of importance which has not suffered badly in recent times by the lawlessness of China, for the most part deliberately provoked by men of standing. The Powers will not, certainly, cancel the promises they have wade to China, but they will be far more circumspect in giving effect to them than they were disposed to be a year and a half ago. The facts of China's situation are better appreciated naw than then, the weakness of her Government, the reckless falsity of her propaganda, the arrogance and selfishness of her political class. And to all this, under a unified and enlightened Government, is now added the barefaced thieving of the Boycott: Committee, blandly condoned by officials as a "patriotic. movement." A clear warning was. given by Sir Austen Chamberlain at Birmingham last January—and China has no truer friend than him. Britain, he said, stood by all her undertakings to this country, she was anxious only to help; but how far and how fast she could go must now depend on the Chinese themselves. So also Baron Tanaka, He said, quite truly we may bee, that Japan had no aggressive designs on China, with whose predicament her own not long distant experiences dispose ed her to sympathize. But cooperation was a word which implied something on both sides and Japan could not ce-operate with China until the latter had changed her attitude to Japan. These are facts on which for her own interest China would do well to reflect, now, at the beginning of her new order.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.