A charming companion for traveller through the Yangize Gorges has been issued by the Indo-China
some' of the offers of its Upper Ca, with, the Inspiration Yonglze Fleet. This is no less than pleasantly illustrated booklet which provides a running commentary. on the sights to be seen from the deck of the sloomer an she advances from chang upwa the fame scene Gulls of the Osten tetum Journey from: Chungking to Fehang is not neglected, so thatthe Passenger is fully equipped to extend Wis or her knowledge of the country through "which the river "runt. NO doubt the authors, who, bythe leplay''s quite ungulde-book pro-Acieney in expressing themaclvet Sinn get inten rove, hed Feducing. the numaer "of questions churian issue in 198], will not be surprised to learn that Mr. Stimson brows the blame on Great Britain's failure to respond (0 America's pro posed invocation of the Nine Power Treaty. Sir John Simon's critics among' his own countrymen have made that point many times, Yet the matter is for quite that. Fashionable certain international defection of this or that nation at a critical moment, Me. Stimson—whose book on Par' Eastern affairs should be. interesting and instructive—bows to the prevailing fashion, but probably hho recognizes that the reasons which prompted Great Britain's decision may have been as respectable as those on which other defections at other mo= ments were based. A writer in the "Round Table" put the matter, well nearly {wo years ago when he said:
(On the other hand, there Is no use Put 10 them in the course of the in cur putting the, Slame, of the Journey; but doubtless, as philoso-United Staten tu ese it was Sir John Phicat mariners, they" wilt realize
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