Frost a Jocal weekly:
Now being printed In Nippon is a, profusely Miustrated "208" page record of the "Ineldent™, Inasmuch og this volume proroises to "tell all"
Ju the usual inimitably. humorous. fashion the Japanese, we fear the sale Schemozzle will fall off Sap and Ip thank the writer for his solleltude, but he need feel no anxiety: we're: nearly sold out, The Obvious {ntormation as to the meaning of ahs iearee "oMcals at the Customs House could give no:
apparently they. were not polited by the Japanese authorise tu' ndvanca:"
As to the menning of the seizures it seems perfectly clear that the Japanese id. not want the vessels cluttering up the river, though' we are a iiltle hurt that the common' politenesser of war did not inspire them to et the: Chinese know beforehand what they intended. doing, Military Reflections Wnirts a contemporary:
"This tst line hod to be tackled frontal and, because of its well-prepared nature, and "the stubbornness of Yr defence, andthe fact that he Japanese miltery"-strengii and, movement had tobe organized and slatted ad niloverens We couldn't do wiv-aht a little Latin in the nocspaper any. mare'n we could do wiv-aht tahr wiv our winkles, But surely. the loke means de profundlst A Warning 'One of our readers rang us up enthusiastic~ ally the other morning to state that he had seen the Welch Fusiliers' goat on. the Race Course. Of course the Fusiliers have their oat, but we wouldn't advise anyone to try: and get it, Taking Care Pewixe, Nov, 18—Mr. Pan Yuckwei, the chief of police, issued a proclamation to-day Fealfirming his previous order against the dis tribution of anti-Japanese literature, Lately, he declares, many such posters and handbills have appeared, which 1s contrary 10 police regulations and is "lable to affect. the maintenance of friendly relations between Ching and Japan."
It is a wise precaution to make quite sure that the present affection between China and Japan should in no way be Impaired.
Action Likely 'A. coxrenronany editorializing on the subject of food profiteering, remarks:
It has already been confessed, in ofietal circles that Chinese dealers. in foodstuffs are. showing hho. scruples og regards high profits, and in the case of vegetable dealers the word "extortion" has been used. It ts to be hoped that oficial action will be tairen 4m this regard, for some measures should' be devised to break a ring which 49 causing a great deal of fnanelal hardship, If the authorities would only give one of the profiteers a sharp slap on the wrist we should feel that something was being done about it, The Scintillators Fnom Mr, Silver's "Bxtracts from a Shanghai War Diary" in the "Tsingtao Times"
"the name "given to the. war' Shanghai later. by the Erililant combination Sapajou and. Peyton-Griffin,;..when people tired of being scared to, death and felt the need the cure by humour, "it looked ike a Feal war, and a real and terible War it Was and 8 up 10 now.
By dear chap, we have it on the best of authority that It Isn't war, Of course it looks Uke it, but then "GUld 9 farthing, Yee iti a farthing Stl Situation "one, was heavy fighting and' northern "sectors "of. the Sha esterday, but progress made by the Japanceo forces was quite in line with expectations which have been xpressed. here during the lat. few ays, "An important feature of events, however was tnat the Japanese seemed to have definitely Soochow." °. 4 iter flank of the Tain body" et troops hold
Of course, we know that war is war, but, 4 this process of rushing. flanks. is resorted, to we shall have the opinion, which we have herd for a tong time, confirmed, that some= thing is going on round here.
Diplomatic Language Mu, Neville Chamberlain in the House of very happy to be able to Inform the "hat the informal, exploratory "discussions with 'a view to reaching' an agreed basis for the hegotlation of a trade agreement between Britain and the United States have now reached a point which the Goveraments of both countrleg feel announce that nego sreement are contemplated.
Put into simpler language: question of the trade relations between Great Britain and the United States having been exploratorially discussed, we feo! itis) about time we got a move on."
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