backing of such responsible names as Mr, Ma Siang-pel, Mme. Sun Yat-sen, and Mme. Liao Chung-ka's. The six-point programme for waging this war gives another of those Uittle glimpses of the obvious that have invested the proclamations of students and school-children with a certain quaintness and humour. In modern warfare the whole of a nation is mobilized automatically. While not everyone is armed, every able-bodied person's talents are employed in the fight for the nation's existence. The whole of a nation's revenue is immediately turned towards the successful prosecution of the war, since it is a matter of life and' death to the country. The naivety of trying to finance a war against a thoroughly prepared Power like Japan by con-Aiscating Japanese property in China {is too obvious to need emphasis. Any attempt to do such a thing would Play straight into the hands of the "enemy". There are signs of the cloven hoot of the Comintern in the proposal to ally the militant Chinese nation with the malcontents in Japan who are supposed to be trying to overthrow the emperor. The phraseology of this part of the manifesto is declared to be similar to that of propaganda circulated in the Island Empire by agents of the Red International and seized by the police there. That, perhaps, is enough by itself completely to discredit the Popular support claimed for the do-cement in question.
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