Japan pleads gullly to being a poor propagandist Especially does she plead guilty to abstention from mendacious propaganda at Geneva and elsewhere where Chinese and their paid spokesmen pour forth their false vapourings with consummate hypocrisy. In any case "propaganda" had core to be invested with a sinister meaning—a dissemination of false news—and it may be that a self-respecting nation hesitates to use the dubious service it dispenses, Any informed foreign official in China knows of the wide ramifications of the opium traffic in this country in which high. Chinese oficials work hand in glove with notorious criminals, as is evidenced by the recent collaboration of these elements in official "opium suppression" Yet witness the Chinese pharisaical outpourings at Geneva, speaking presumably. with "their tongues in their cheeks."
Let the perfervid friends of China and the Japonophobes remember that the principal leaders ae Nanking are the same men who ten years ago were actively allied with the/communists, and that but for the timely protection of their national armed forces they would have been sacrificed on the altar of Bolshevism.
It may also be well for them to remember that their armed forces have been long in China and are still here io protect them against their best mends. The Chinese have manifested their inherent xenophobia many times in the past and it has not always been directed against the Japanese. Frequently no nice distinct tions have been made and this also is. commended for remembrance.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.