The press yesterday gave prominence to the fighting in Shanghai under treble column streamers and Jdevoted the principal editorials " to the subject stressing the inter national aspect of the drama.
It would be easy to over~emphasize the gravity "of the international Jdangers involved, says the "Daily Telegraph." The British and Ameri-Jean governments, however, are cooperating with other governments, which have Far Eastern interests in fan effort to mitigate the course of hostilities.
"It appears that Japan's forward. policy 1s being forced on her by, the "men in the field and. thei powerful patriotic backers at home, the newspaper adds.
The well-wishers of Japan as well Jas the friends of China, it continues, must hope that the responsible cle ments "in Tokyo will yet regain control and that terms acceptable General Chiang Kai-shek, who has fo cope with his own war party, will be offered before the conflagra: tion is extended still further.
A clash such as this, says the "Morning Post," has ah awkward way of developing. it is difficult to suppose that either side is indiffer-Jent to the injuries which might be. inflicted on others than themselves or that either party is unmindful that "those interests will refuse {to be ignored.—Reuter,
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