A Northern View Criticised: A Duet on Extrality: An Interled Raffles and Gambling: Silver Again: Pawnshop Amenities is that this forecast has gone awry.
As a refreshing contrast to your North's view of affairs contributed by the said Tientsin correspondent LX beg to call your attention to your Japan's China Attitude published fon the same day viz., 18th: October, where appeared. the. following!
"We believe, a Foreign Office spokesman said, "that Marsha! Chang Hsueh-lisng is entirely] sincere in his activities and meart exactly what he said when he ar: nounced he is acting for peace. We can see no reason at present why he should not be able to e0- operate with the National Goverr: ment in Nanking' 'o which he has sworn allegiance"
"The spokesman scoffed at the! reports from Peiping that Muk den and. Nanking are. certa'a eventually to clash over the ad: ministration of the areas north of the Yellow River." The!
spokesman mentioned above is a member of the Japanese Foreign Office, who can be relied upon to ye a sound and correct view of the case, because of the greater fachity of obtaining news enjoye by Japanese residents and offic in China as opposed to those of]
the foreign observers mentioned by your Correspondent.
One can have very little to caf) against your Tientsin Correspondent's method of disseminating news provided he confines him to news which is in perfect keeping with irrefutable assumptions, but soon as he forsakes firm and sol stound for gossips in the Club or at sume convivial parties his news suiters in consequence, Further, to spread such rumours in spite of the declared wish for peace on the part of the Central Government and Marshal Chang is a thing to be condemned, This attempt to inject dangerous matters into a situation which is just clearing up and augurs well for the future should be sec-fontly discountenanced. Your Tien sincere in his views but the damage he dyes is as incalculable as. that! done by those noisy supporters of the most contentious principle of Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum, When carried to the extreme this principle har been known to lead' to most undesirable and disastrous results, Pax, Nanking, October 21, 1930,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.