Every army in the world, on active service, has, in greater or less degree, to contend with the' problem of looting which is exceedingly dificult to restrain in the heat of battle or the excitement of a victorious advance, It is not surprising therefore that the Japanese military authorities, in their solicitude for the good name of their troops, should have been impelled to fenforee measures on that point of discipline. Reference to specific cases has not been forthcoming with systematic regularity because it {ig recognized that. reliance on the sense. of responsibility in high quarters Is the best guarantee of restraint, As capital is sometimes made of Chinese actions in this regard it' salutary (0 suggest that reticence should not bbe one-sided. Nor should either party mistake this silence for Ignorance, The fads are known and the record must eventually be available for fulure guidance. There will be agreement that distinctions can be drawn between looting: indulged in the height of conflict and that fort of organized depredation which Nas less rebut able inspiration.
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