By oficial pronouncements and in-pired articles in the press, the apanese public has been well pre-ared to consider the fall of Hankow arking only @ phase rather than ne end of the Japanese campaign China, This idea 1s being continually dined into the public, and by now no lusian appears to exist on the sub-ect Japanese circles, both official ud unoMeial, still speak of the posibility of the war in China lasting ye, ten of even twenty years. Scores of. special correspondents, joluding a group of well-known aunors, are in China "covering" the rive on Hankow. Reports from hina are in optimistic vein. No backs are recorded. The "irresistlo advance" of the imperial forces stated to be progressing steadily ud smoothly, with all opposition, no watter how stubborn, being gradually overcome, Japanese hopes of enguiging the antral armies in a large scale fron-collision and delivering a crushing low axe realised by army and other quarters as being difficult of achieve-lent, for it is known that the Chi-eye plan of campaign will hardly permit thi
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