Nanking's fortitude is being tragically tried, During the last few weeks air-raiding Japanese invaders have attacked the Capital Admiral Hasegawa has given formal intimation to the Foreign powers that, after noon of September 21, Nanking may expect "such offensive measures as bombing and otherwise" upon the "Chinese forces as well as all the establishments pertaining to their military operations and activities" in and around its walls. The significance of the Japanese Commander-in-Chief's threat is fiercely emphasized by the result of the latest and most formidable air-raid with which the Capital has had yet to contend. At the moment it is not 2064 Possible accurately to determine the results of what may turn out to be the most important Purely on the basis of the quoted comments in the Italian press there seems to be no great ground for anxiety lest the Nyon Agreement should bar the way to that Anglo-Italian understanding for which it is understood the Earl of Perth will be authorized to work on his resumption of duty at Rome. Signor Benito Mussolini has so vigorously led the Italian nation away from the collective system that he will—or should be—the first to applaud national decision which is governed by national interests. That is the charge levelled against the Nyon' agreement and the measures now being taken jointly by France and Great Britain to give it effect. Even if the charge were true—and it is not—Italy would have no valid cause for complaint, in the light of the doctrines so sedulously expounded by her leader. Perhaps it may be possible to detect in the criticism a desire somehow to revise rejection of what M. Yvon Delbos has called collaboration in defence of peace. It would be pleasant to think that Rome was seriously contemplating such a return to old principles,
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