It is apparent that this is guerilla warfare ona widespread scale. A convenient name of spreading. opproprium is "banditry," and doubtless there is lawlessness in Manchuria with only such private motivation. But so far as the burning of palaces and of aerodromes and the wrecking of railways and the attacks on troops. and troop trains is a movement of protest and resistance bya downtrodden population against enormous illegal military oppression it is in a long and fine tradition of causes never conceive themselves hope: less and Keep up sporadic warfare until the opportunity shall arise for final deliverance. Manchurl anese army on arrive service holding the main cities and the railway lines, and endeavouring to cow the Population by incessant punitive ex-editions. The idea that it is pos sible to restore law and order, let alone achieve prosperity, der an alien military occupation' flies in the of its security, has what the nations of ghe League have felled as yet to do. or have been faint in doing to support the judgment pronounced by the League.
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