The "Daily Telegraph" continues:
"Unpleasant and tragic—in some instances—as have been the recent anti-British activities, they are a sign of Japanese weakness rather than strength."
"It is important that the British Government and its representatives on the spot do not accept them without protest, or allow a withdrawal of the protection which our forces at hand can exercise."
"Still less," the "Daily Telegraph" concludes, "should any satisfaction be given to Japanese hopes that we may be bluffed from giving financial and diplomatic support afforded to General Chiang Kai-shek's Government."
The "Daily Herald" states that the Tientsin situation becomes more and more ominous, "not only because of the threatened blockade, but because the Japanese army spokesman has hinted at raising wider issues than the handing over of the four Chinese accused of complicity in terroristic murders:
"If the Japanese are intent, not on trying these men but on undermining and destroying the status of the Settlement itself," it declares, "then the challenge becomes one involving the whole position of Great Britain in the Far East."—Reuter.
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