'The Shanghai Japanese _community, with the Japanese Naval Landing Party, commemorated outbreak ofthe hostilities between Japan and China in' Shanghai 1032 with special Buddhist ser~ vices, mot only at the Japanese shrines, but also at the memorials erected by the Chinese in honour of their dead in those bloody and destructive weeks. The gesture by the local Japanese will, it is certain, be appreciated by the Chinese, especi ly in view of the declarations recently made by prominent Japanase diplomats in this country thatthe old policy of the mailed fist must be modified if Japan is going to tiam any' of her" objectives. in Asia and in' relation to this country. Tneldents in the south-west and, I terly, in Shensi, have served less to show up the disunity of the Chinese nation, than its inherent power of standing together. The fissiparous tendencies are still there, but a force has been. created which may well counteract them, and cause those who bank on them to bank on something which may ultimately let them down. This is due to no currying fof favour, ax some of the Japanese ress appear to suggest, but to the Togieal development of" the Chinese nationalist movement which has been fostered by the Chinese Government fa number of years. That the Chin~ ce nationalist movement may shortly call for some drastic measures. of control Is obvious from the radical Student troubles which have broken Out from time to time, noticeably recently in Peiping. Bul its generat effect cannot be denied, and it would bbe Idle for the officials of any foreign Power to ignore it
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