The Frenth and. other European nations, and the Americans. supplemented the master and main work of Great Britain here at Shanghai ud this brought the one city of China to highest consummation, to formest plate and to the rank of the fourth or fifth port of the world.
That much for Shanghai's internal set-up which was ideal and in no lace of the globe so well mixed. Geographically, in her natural situation. the port is the gateway of a 3,000-mile-long artery running midway across the whole width, from west to east, dividing a continental terrain into north and south halves Its basin And drainage—the area served—contains half of China's population. It as it were, a downward moving escalator supplied with inherent and perennial motive force and never in need of repairs, providing thus the most economical means of transportation.
"With the above-described internal fiyaan equipment and the natural phyđical endowments, Shanghai can have no peer.
Now the natural environment w remain all-¢nduring, but the internal Cisposition pf forces is subject to variation and much change, Here to that, "moment" referred io above, which is before us ant Great River, west and east, and by land, vià caravan route, continentally north and south, which is undoubtedly the most ious development in its entire 90- years-old history authorities it is quite impracticable for the Island-Empire to maintain a firm administrative grip over the entire land, after even the militar? defeat and "conquest" of China. Japan's leaders, themselves, have as iheir real China objective the exploitation of economic possibilities, the attainment of whith necessitates in their eyes first the effacement of the Kuomintang Government.
Granted that all the—authority are wrong and that Japan alone is right and supposing that after her military victories she. achieves an all-embracing contro}, there are certain bold realities which Japan will sooner or later come up agai and fronting which, is for her either destruction or adjustment,
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