The British Government's apparent. indifference, he asserted, was having a deployable effect on British prestige and if continued, the ultimate effect on British trade with China would be disastrous, Mr. Timperley urged that cre should be liberally given to China, which she would repay and remember with gratitude.
Japan, he said, had been putting up a gigantic blue. The British Government could have (take a much stronger attitude, for Japan would never have risked a war against Britain, and was less likely to do so now when she had been defeated in battle by the Chinese and her prospects in China were growing more gloomy.
Public feeling—especially in the United States—may be summed up by a question put io a Japanese speaker at a New York meeting (a meeting, be it noted, at which the eker had been given a perfectly orderly and polite hearing from the first word to the last), "Can you please tell us," asked a member of the audience, when question-time was announced, "what right the Japanese army has to be in China?'
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