"The outlook for the Japanese grows steadily worse. Morally, they haven't a' leg to stand on. They are undisguised aggressors and the excesses committed by their soldiery have made them everybody's enemy: in China. The more battles they win, the greater grow their entangling commitments. They can neither get on nor get out.
"Small wonder if their hotheads, in desperation, try to cover up this failure by widening the conflict and trying to vent on the British or other foreigners, the mortification for which their own acts are solely accountable."—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.