Feb. 2.
In alluding yesterday to the departure of General Duncan from Shanghai we made reference to one particular aspect of his mission—namely that the presence of the Defence Force in Shanghai proved that the bus-mess of an army is not necessarily to fight but to keep the peaco—in other words to prevent war. This classical example of what can be achieved by an armed force should, bz kept in the minds of people not only in China but in places far distant when the: Locarno spirit and disarmament are so much in the air, for obviously if the old Latin maxim had but been in the
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