London, Oct. 26.
Whatever may now happen in Shanghai, the Chinese may justly claim to have already won a great advantage, says the "Manchester Guardian" to-day. There must now be some 120,000 Japanese fighting there, the journal states, who can be ill spared from the northern campaign.
Losses on both sides, it adds, have been enormous, but China can afford them, Japan cannot.
The Japanese command may well be cursing the impetuosity which first involved them in this disastrous "sideshow."—Reuter.
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