By O. M. ahum (Editor, "North-China Daily News"1911-1930)
London, Jan. 7.
A friend who knows the Far East said to me to-day at the Chinese Art Exhibition opening: "The Japanese have gone mad, evidently. The Government can't control the Army, the Army can't control the officers, and the officers can't control the men." Y This puts in a nutshell the general feeling in London. The Japanese demands on the Council the famous article by Admiral Suetsugu—ot which a French writer in "L'Epoque" says succinctly "Japan is not making war on Communism, if she massacres Chinese, she is in reality making war on Europe" and the outrageous assault on Sergt. Turner and Inspr. West have attracted an enormous amount of attention.
Nor for the first time does one realize what very bad psychologists the Japanese are. Nothing could be better calculated to wreck their ambitions than the line they are taking. I spare you the old tag about "whom the gods wish to destroy." But it is what we are thinking.
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