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Japanese had of confining the trouble to North China, and it appears that at one time they did intend so to localize it, the fact remains that hostilities spread until rather over a month later the environs of Shanghai became involved, and this city had to pass through a grimmer experience of fighting than occurred on the previous occasion in 1932. Attempts have been made to criticize the Chinese for attacking the Japanese at Shanghai, but, once the China Incident had commenced, they were entitled to strike at their enemy wherever they found him, and one such place was Shanghai. The immediate effect of this development was to commit the Japanese more deeply in China than it is apparent they originally intended, for it is believed that, had they remained unmolested, their scheme envisaged taking only that portion of China north of the old bed of the Yellow River, and the establish-
Artistic Memorials. ment in that area of a Government not unlike in status that of Mianchoukuo. That
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