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the battle at Shanghai is im-
lence, on Saturday. evening's news bills' of the football results. 1 am incessantly asked why the Japanese have. let loose like this, Few people fullow the news day by day lover many months and note its implications. The present explosion [therefore comes as a thunderbolt.
Instructed opinion as to what the [Powers should do is davided. 'Champions of the League of tions, though sorrowfully admit its failure hitherto, and, some of them, its mistakes, continue to urge' that it, alone can intervene effectually. Thus Mr. Wickham Steed, formerly editor of "The Times," writes to that paper to-aay: nek tg Mons "of. face'
eis often sad hat Japan there mo: auch chin League and Cee er cen tealo—a war from which the United States and British Dominions might be nable, to) re would Great' Brita stand?
Mr. Steed believes that there is ly strengthened by' firm action on the part of the League, to enable them to overcome the' fire-eaters with counsels of moderation.
On the other hand are those who fear that the League might dra us into War, that Great Britain, usual, might be left to carry the baby: and there is not the slightest Jdoubt that the whole nation would Fise united against any such danger, Thus Admiral Fremantle writes in "The Times," immediately lurider Mr. Steed's letter: tional danger which I apthat which would onset
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