Japanese military brewed in Manchuria by way of their ire against the projected reduction of armaments, a measure which all Japanese administrations preceding the present Saito Cabinet strongly favoured, "There is neither any rational attitude nor a definite goal in the doings, of our military in churia," he writes. "They have up a new unnatural wobbling under the weight it hi bear and which is caush stagger too. choukuo, has, figuratively speaking, taken up a boulder which is too heavy for its strength. It cannot be carried to the place where i desirable to take it, nor can it be put down. So one has to hold it up, seeking assistance from here and there, and puffing and, tottering all the time." Mr, Hisashi also dwells, in vein sarcastic, on the "triumphal return home" that the military staged in Tokyo and various other cities of Japan after the great "victories" won at Chapel and in Manchuria. "How our military has degenerated and weakened!" is his comment.
Comparing the British and Japanese colonial, Mr. Hisashi holds that the Japanese fare like flies, while the English are like ticks. The Japanese, he ay, are "yakamashii" "(noisy the time and are fond of posing; they-Took down on the peoples who have been fated to come under their sway, even if this has been the result of annexation; in short, they are troublesome all' the time and intensely disliked. The English, on the contrary, he says, are like ticks; they are quiet; they make the colony part and parcel of their lives; and they gradually: come to take a part in the life of [the people they are not merely' governing, but also living with. In other words, he thinks, the English jate an eminently practical people, knowing when to give and take, Jand'that is why, although the [British empire embraces such a last area, there is comparatively Hittle trouble in those regions and what, troubles have arisen easily admit of adjustment by agreement. Japan, on the contrary, he finds, has reaped nothing but trust, dislike, expense and trouble the in Karen and Formosa and is going reap much more in Manchuris Japan, he proceeds, is out to suck lanchuria's blood, but beware, he warns the Japanese, that, led by
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