New York, July 30, Japan's rejection of the pleas of Great Britain and the United State: the subject of a leading article in the "New York Times" to-da:
"Evidently," the journal says, "Japan hopes soon to present the world with another jolt accompli— two more provinces freed' from the main body of China."
"China's military preparations," the newspaper declares, "are still far from complete. The opportunism which Jed the Generalissimo to acquiesce in earlier concessions to Japan may again dictate a play for time, but now he has to take into account outraged Chinese nationalism and the demands of implacably anti-Japanese Communists in the north-west."
'The Japanese apparently assume.' the "New York Times" goes on, "that General Chiang Kai-shek, for all his bold words, will remain aloof.... The
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