The formula and methods of Japanese expansion, continues the paper, are too simple and blunt to conceal their designs but on account of difficult circumstances, the Central Government and the Hopei-Charhar Political Council have had to carry o their relations with the aggressors as best they could.
As General Chiang Kai-shek said in his momentous Kuling speech, "a weak nation like China must make an honest estimate of her own strength. For the sake of national reconstruction she absolutely: needs peace, and. that is why she has endured much hardship and affront in order to keep amicable relations with foreign Powers."
It was the original intention of the aggressors, states the "Sin Wen Pao," to swallow up North China in a big gulp, and not piecemeal. Facts, however, turned~ggainst their wishes, because the local authorities in North China, unlike tse in Manchuria, did not believe in non-resistance. Thereupon, the Japanese swerved to the policy of gradual advance by advocating the extension of the East Hopei regime to Hopei and Charhar provinces. 'This policy, too, was resisted by the authorities in the two provinces who did not choose to follow the footsteps of Yin Ju-keng and his kind. The failure of political intrigues led finally to the gunfire in' Lukouchiao, Peiping, which was for more than 600 years the capital of China has a political importance that cannot be over-emphasized, Although the capital was removed to Nanking, Peiping has retained its position as a strategie as well as political centre in North China, controlling as it does the Peiping-Liaoning, Peiping-Hankow, Peiping-Suiyuan, Peiping-Tungchow and Peiping-Mentoukou Railways,
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