The visit of the British Chita Squadron to. China waters was featured by many of the Japanese papers with advertisements welcoming the officers and men of the fleet to Japan. The "Osaka Ashi,"
its sister paper, the is perhaps the largest journal in Japan, having a daily sellation: running into (so it is Jelaimed) over a million-and-a-half, had about a third of its back page devoted to a warm welcome to the China Squadron, but beneath it ran another advertisement that, to say This advertise new book which is said to have run into forty-five editions The book is entitled "Nichi Ron" (The Certainty of Commander Tata _fshimaru, published by the Shunjusha jofukubashi, Nihonbashi, Tokyo.
The advertisement says that this
as to "What Woul Great book holds the ey to the question Britain and Japan Clash," while it Happen claimed that the book has created tremendous sensation throughout the whole of Japan. Britain is planning the ruin of Japan, the ad-Vertisement gibly bu With her characteristic cunning, pretends to be seeking this country's ea-operation, and the question dramatically asked as to, which would prevail in the end: The gentlemanliness of John Bull or the Bushido of Japan. The advertisement (a very lengthy one) proceeds to say that, although the relations between the United States and Japan are serious, those between Great Britain with cag mortal blow for many re among ti the n trade and because Ja} snapped her fingers at the League of Nations of which Britain is said to be the it mainstay.
"Many Japanese" who fare great friends of peace and are thor what sould likely if our country, in self-defence, had to collide with Great Britain. ' The present volume presents a lucid answer to this question." envoy to the Court of St. other day, according to cable ceived here, deplored that "propaganda articles regarding, Japan failed to take facts fully into consideration and were inimical to. the best interests of all countries. That, of cour ry true; but nothing ig said here with regard to the spate The book consists of twelve the contents of which are (1) Yesterday's Friend: To-day's Enemy; (2) How Britain ig Bneroaching on Japan; (3) Will a Frontal Collision 0 (4), The Death-Knell of the British Navy May Be Heard; (6) The Ft Pivot of the World: The Me terranean or the Pacific?; Britain's Tactics in the Pacific; A Fight Would Be of a Two-Fold Nature, Diplomatic as well orenda "articles which flood the not a few of these being contributed Fapanese press day in and day out, by high officers in the fighting ser lees, retired diplomats, recognised business magnates the like. Boycotts against other countries ar openly advocated, attempts are made day after day to secure national enthusiasm for militarist adventures by directing animosity against some foreign country, and bellicose arti les clutter up the vernacular press. The English-language papers here published by Japanese are, for the Most part, harmless and iinocnous, with occasional editorial flare-ups that ave more amusing than othe!
But the gent mischief is don in the columns of the vernacular kang which will print, anything, regardless of whether the subject matter 1s founded on abject fnlse-The civilian seem to mind one bit; perhaps they cannot do anything worthwhile, for these pro-Paganda campaigns are directed by That very same party which, long before a section of railway' track was blasted near Mukden by un-'Ymrown persons, had for months prepared the Japanese public, by means of full-page advertisements in the newspapers, the imminent danger to Japan's national a result of the Machiavellian scheme that naughty Chang Hsueh-Tang wag hatching against these islands, The identity of this party, Whose activities have constantly gonflicted with the public under-Takings and assurances of the (12) Awaken, British People, to the Perils That Confront You.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.