Paris, July 21.
Sympathy with the Chinese cause is the note sounded by most of the Paris newspapers to-day in their comments on the Far Eastern crisis.
"One would have to be endowed with a. great deal of naivete to hesitate on which side—China or Japan—to bestow one's sympathies," writes the Catholic syndicalist paper "L'Aube." "There are certain governments which wish for war or prepare for it: Japanese imperialism is one of them."
"It is impossible not to recognize that Japan wants war," states the rightist "Lo Figaro," "but if Tokyo believed that intimidation would well serve its aims, being sure of scoring a rapid success, it seems that it under-estimated its adversaries,"
"Long live China" is the headline under ich the Communist "L'Humanite" comments on the crisis.
The centrist "Lo Petit Parisien" sums up the international situation in relation {c Far Eastern affairs th "Great Britain is keeping a prudent attitude. The United States i: reserving its freedom of action. France also takes a prudent and ex-Pectant stand. The U.S.S.R. alone might intervene directly in the crisis. As for Italy and Germany, they are closely bound to Japan by the anti-Communist pact concluded last year. There is no sign that any of the big powers might take the lead iñ intervening in the Far East."—Havas,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.