compact executive committee has An admirably representative and been chosen under the presidency nf Sir John Brenan to arrange a 30 able programme of celebration of the Silver Jubilee of His Majesty the King on May 6. In proposing that the British community in Shanghai should join with the other subjects of King George V in rejoicing on that auspicious occasion, Sir John happily 472] expounded the intimacy of the tie which bind the King to his people. British Shanghailanders will accordingly welcome the opportunity to signalize their deep sense of gratitude for the qualities of sovereignty and leadership displayed by their beloved monarch in times of prosperity and adversity. for the true forging of the bonds of union among the peoples the British Empire. On Christmas Day the King spoke to his people with a personal note of paternal al fection:
Tt fs as members of one family that we shall to-day, and always. remem Der thave other' members of it who suffering from sickness of from the lack of work and hope: and we shall be ready todo our utmost {to befriend them, In invoking thus "the spirit of one great family", the King revealed the authentic appeal of his influence as ¥16) graciously "developed during his, arduous reign. He can therefore aunt on enthusiastic homage on the day which marks the completion of a quarter of a century's active and @evoted labour in the highest seat {iy of the Empire. in cryeric_ Moves Th mae detached observer would be 178 pardoned if he maintained that events 178lin the North—on the basis of the messages received—could be inter= preted entirely according to the taste and fancy of the reader. Winnowing the grain from the chaff, it would seem. that General Sung Cheh-yuan, the Governor of Charhar,—who is now in Peking—was considered by the Japanese to have agreed that his troops should evacuate the small area bounded by Tatung end Kuyuan—about 30 square miles—by the end of December. For some reason or other the Japanese had reason to believe that the necessary orders did not 180] reach the Chinese troops concerned. The Japanese and Manchoukuo troops under the orders of the Kwantung Army authorities, accordingly moved into the area. It is alleged that some resistance was offered and fighting duly occurred. The Japanese casual ties were slight. The issue does not sooth, however, to be really so simple es all that. There is uncertainty 285 over the delimitation of the boundary 485 between Jehol and Charhar and cer tain Japanese comments [prevalence of the view that Jel o's Rounderies should march with the Great Wall. A conference with General Sung Cheh-yuan on that matter may be an early event. Then, too, other statements from Japenese military sources are not inconsistent with the comention that a wider purpose is actively engaging the at tention of the Kwantung Army. 20 other words, the position of Cherhar In the whole Japanese scheme for making Manchoukuo a convenient bulwark against Soviet Russia may be taken into account. And it is generally perceived that, in Taner Mongolia, Japan has what have now come tobe known as "special interests". If all this sounds cryptic, it must be admitted that the tech-unique is familiar.
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