Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Scott Personal care of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Horton 1e has been misinformed. Admiral Yonai admits that "foreign Powers enjoy the right of navigation on the Yangtze River," pointing aut however, that it is not an international iver as defined by international law. From thia 1e argues that Japan being in fact at war vith the Chiang Kai-shek regime, and the Yangtze forming a strategic artery, if stratelic necessity dictates Japan should not hesitate to close the river. The fact is, of course, that the Chinese closed it; the Japan-had to open it as they forced their way aland, this being necessary as the best means 4 transporting supplies for the armies penetrating deeper and deeper into the in-enor. Had the matter rested solely on that coting there would have been utile ground complaint, so long as the river had been pened as soon as it was militarily feasible o do so, and Japan had thus given practical recognition to the rights of the other Powers which Admiral Yonai frankly admits do exist. But that does not end it. The North-China Daily News" some months ago revealed with considerable detail the fact hat Japanese shipping was trading up the Tangtze, carrying not only war material, as vas at first alleged, but doing a very substantial import and export trade which by 30 stretch of imagination could be described is having military characteristics. It was: aimed that the river was so dangerous, be-souse of mines, etc. laid by the Chinese, that hose instruments of destruction would have O'be removed before other foreign shipping sould use the waterway There was also the legend that such ship-ring ran the risk of- being fired upon by the Zhinese, and when foreign gunboats were scarted down the river from Hankow re-
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