Japan avoids Friction With Neutral Powers London, June 23.
"The report that Japan is about to declare war on China is now officially denied," the "Daily Telegraph" declared here this morning. "Until the belligerents have proclaimed that belligerency exists de jure they forego all legal privileges of belligerency such as the right to blockade.
"Japan did not sacrifice for nothing the advantage of claiming those privileges," the paper added. "But it is expedient for Japan not to declare war since the claim to belligerent privileges would materially extend friction with neutral powers. But in view of the talk current nowadays about totalitarian war, with no warned attacks upon neighbours as one of its features, it may be well to establish that such attacks are as inadmissible in law as they are odious in morals."—Havas.
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