Remarkable statements appear from time to time in foreign publications regarding Shanghai, generally the Fesult of ineMicient observation, incorrect. deduction, political strabismus, Jor a desire to indulge in downright prevarication. It is a little digicalt ta decide under which heading the following extract from comment in The Living Ase" is to be place, though the. latter is probably most suitable:— muddy enclosure. For a certain sum hho purchased the right of dredging the "lake for he calculated that thousands of these fish with little golden plates had at some time or another inhabited it and when they died the plates sank into the mud, He was perfectly correct and by dredging the lake and examining the mud he was able to amass a fair sum of money represented by the golden plates, which made his investment worth while.
But while Japan plays England off America, Enyland pays of against Japan. Although Sapanese wilt control the British, and the British will control the. Chinese. We can then expect political oppress lon from both the Japanese and the British, and we shall become slaves.
The fact, of course, is that the two Ineldents' which occurred last summer, were extensively reported by. oth "the British newspapers Shanghai, and in one at least a lar ament of very pointed comment ws Published, as readers will well remember. 'It is quite likely that "The Living Age" is not to be held completely responsible for it facts, in Such a case, which may possibly be culled from' the cables of some cor [respondent politically wall-eyed. But the facts are incorrect, s0 also is the deduction which it is sought to draw from, them. Tt may be, how: fever, that the authoritativeness of The Living Age" can best be esti nated by one of its own claims:—
For the material that "The Living 'Age alone lays before the, puiblle' possesses "more impo!
Qvery day. Beginning with Ernst Menrt's "The Man Betind Miter" lart October and including "Murder in {he Soto this month. our wroes aye Snalyzed, Interpreted, and prophest the break-up of Nazi Germany for a fut year.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.