Mrs. EpvrHE Rr"pocH of Hongkong desires to express heartfelt thanks to all those who have been her kind friends in her recent sad bereavement, also for beautiful floral tributes.—-z""
The historian may generalize in his survey of minor incidents which are part of an important tendency or conclusion, but he shuns the error of that form of generalization which leads to inacci A century from. now the Shanghai incident of 1932 will have long been forgotten and will find brief mention, if any, in the history of the dynamic changes occurring in the Far Fast of which it forms a part. Looking at it from this distance, merely six years, it assumes greater importance and there exists such an abundance of contemporary reference that it deserves better treatment than it receives in the following excerpt:
The only check to Japanese aggression was when a force of some 12000 Japanese landed at Shanghai and, using the international Concession—a miniature republic under the control of a local council of foreign residents—as a base for Operations, attacked the nearest Chinese troops in revenge for anti-Japanese rioting in the native city. Fighting behind carefully prepared trenches, the Chinese troops repulsed the enemy attack, and /the protests of the Powers were so strong Eme. T to withdraw the that Japan thought it wiser to
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