To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuia Dany News'
'Sm—In 2 public utterance some lime' ago, a Japanese diplomat. represented China to the world as the Fecalcitrant wife of Japan, with the hope of impressing upon the public: the idea that this is a family affair: <a fight strictly for two—and none should butt in. "Sex and comedy re~ lief is thus introduced into the tense drama which 1s being enacted in. these parts In my mind's eyes, 1 see a conjugal' relationship of another order and its Fesemblance to actual facts 1s much more striking. 1 see Manchuria as a comely wife, China ax a weak husband and Japan as a strony neigh-hour made off with the comely wife fand the husband, though out to the quick, was unable to do anything (o stop the depredation, In the Japanese trades against! Chinese insincerity, 1 see the neigh-our. berating the husband for resenting the loss of "his wife, saying "Foolish fellow, 1 did not take her} she left you for me of her own volition."
In the Japanese offers of cultural and economic ce-operation I see the neighbour, after taking the wife away from the' husband, waxes. generous and does little things for the poor fellow in order to show the world of his generosity and sportsmanship. if one could say of sportsmanship of conqueror.
Japan may try to deny the seizure of Manchuria but she ca hardly deny her complication, The most she could say would be it was nec-assary (o her existence, In this again sec the neighbour trying to justify the seduction because "She Is my tine."
The moral of this allegory is that the outstanding issues between China and Japan are not private affairs! between them and it is high time for the British and American goveruments to offer their good offices in the forthcoming conversations for the purpose of liquidating the "tense and dangerous situation The good ottoes of the American and British delegates In the Shantung conversations which was held lurider the auspices of the Arms Conference in Washington in 1022 did much to bring about the equitable and amicable settlement of the vex-tous question and the old and tried formula should be applied again.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.