It is premature, "The Times Meved, to condemn the Japanese policy towards China unheard, There is no doubt that the Japanese Government are genuinely disturbed by the instability of governments in China, The situation in China, however, has recently improved, and "The Times" ridicules the idea of the danger of China's armies, or, that the American policy has inspired a de~ sire to incite Russia and China to war against Japan.
"The Times" emphasizes the Pacite policy of Great Britain, in which there Is every desire to remain on the best of terms with her old lly, and to assist in the growth of beice and order in China.
The general limitation of the trade in arms with China can only secured by the collective action of the Powers, and cannot be furthered by declarations which do not take into account the efforts of the Chinese authorities to restore order in China, or the great legitimate interest of Great Britain and other ations, which cannot be disregard-
Universal Anxiety It is natural enough that the Japan. ese declarations should have caused universal anxiety. Their sweeping character and curious informality of Jannouncement are equally startling.
Commenting on the special _emphasis laid by Mr. Hiroshi Saito, Japanese Ambassador to the United State, Mr, Matsuzo Nagai, Japanese Ambassador to. Germany, and Koki Hirota, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the granting of loans and sale of aeroplanes to China as being specially dangerous to japan, "The Times" says that, to all yequainted with Chinese conditions and Japanese military operations in China, such danger must seem 9 little remote, especially since the Japanese Government has decided to double its own air force.
The statements of the Japanese Ambassadors to the United States and Germany are bound to arouse the [suspicion that Europe's and America's present difficulties once more are farded as Japan's opportunity.
Tecent history in the Far East is quite enough to justify this suspicion. Tu 1015, when Europe was at war and the United States was on the brink of the same conflict, Japan made her famous Twenty-One Demands, Tater, Japan chose a time when Europe' and America were in the [throes of a disastrous economic crisis, engage in military operations in China and to wrest Manchoukuo from her.
On the present occasion, Japan [seems to have selzea a moment when European diplomacy was. struggling /with the disarmament problem and the United States was engaged in a vast reorganization of its national lite, for the enunciation of still more com: prehensive claims to dominate and [Control the development of the Chin-jose Republic.
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