May 23.
The mischievous habit of throwing money- wrenches into machines is fashionable China to-day. There are evidently, in the North, certain influen-3 which would block local effort to end the tragi-farcical epic of semi-resistance to the Japanese troops. In the South it is apparent that nothing would give certain people _greater annoyance than a successful outcome of the "call it a peace" movement. Just when it seems [Possible to be reasonably hopeful. regarding such a movement: which, incidentally, would have the support of Chinese commercial opinion, the possessor: of monkey wrenches start throwing. Take, for example, the protest which the South-West Political Council has addressed to the League of Nations. It technical.
does not amount to a row of, beans for the simple reason that
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