Captain GEM. O'Donnell, former Chief-of- Stall of the British Yangtze Flotilla, received work after the bombing of the U.S. Panay Kennedy. U.S. Ambassador to the Court of Other British navel officers were honoured and each medal was accompanied" by a President Roosevelt, any suggestion that they are unable to do so, and the failure to take appropriate steps for its total eradication places a grievous burden of guilt upon Japanese shoulders, It of no avail to seek to suggest that the real responsibility rests with the provisional Governments which have been set up in Peiping and Nanking. They are merely facades behind which Japan is manipulating the strings of government. They have no authority founded upon the will of the people over whom they rule, but merely that delegated to them by the invaders. It is consequently to the fount of such authority that responsibility in this matter must ultimately be traced. On such a state of affairs it is impossible to write too strongly. Whatever is the reason for this (raMe it is clear that its continuance easts a blot upon the Japanese escutcheon. This evil trade militates against the claimed traditional courtesy and chivalry of the Japanese race, for it is obvious that those who realize the terrible effects of this trade, and are unwilling to stop it must in the end make themselves a mere byword and a hissing amongst the nations of the world,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.
