In a leading article on the Japanese, advance in Shanghai, the "Dally Mail" says that Japan, with her tige and this' victory," and China, after her magnificently sustained resistance, could both accept _an armistice without disgrace. Unhappily, the newspaper declares, it does not appear likely that either side will be willing to break off the struggle yet.
The "Daily Mail" adds that everybody will hope that, before winter sets. in, the mediation of outside, Powers may bring the two sides to an accommodation.
While the conflict continues, states, there is always the risk of Russia taking "more than a covert! share in the hostilities and calamity ously widening the war. The Nine-Power Conference, the newspaper adds, can be relied upon to use its most' persuasive efforts to hasten
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