To the Editor of the Nowri-CHINA Datty News."
Sm—I notice that "The Weekly Review" for September 1, has over 70. pages principally directed gainst Japan, but I do not see anything in it about Communism or Sovietism. Are we in America to infer that, after all, the new government is gradually forming an entente with Russia?
Certain Democratic papers in the United States frequently" attack Japan and many despatches from China to the metropolitan press are antagonistic to Japan.
Some of us on this side of the Pacific are beginning to wonder why this ix so. The United States is friendly to both Chin. and Japan, We do not wish our coun-to be put in the position of ridly to either. Why need we be'
Ex-Secretary Charles Hughes aid down the position at the Conference with South American Nations at Havana, Cuba, that every nation has the right and the duty to protect its citizens or subjects
isting government is unable, for all countries in which the es: any reason, to protect them. "This applies to Nicaragua, Hayti, Egypt, Turkey, China or any other country.
It has been the glory of Great,
warship to the South Seas to.pro-Bi that she would send a tect any subject, and intelligent jo know that Japan, as well fas England and America, is morally obliged to make secure the lives and property of her subjects in Manchuria and Shantung.
Tam, ete,
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