'What About the Dog'
To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuma Dany News"
Sm—In reply to Doc Lover I beg io state that I took my airedale to Karatsu two years ago and he suffer-Vd no ill-effects from his holiday there.
Nevertheless one may as well bear it in mind that any agreement implies at least two parties concerned io come to a common ground. To say the least row, it is hard for the Chinese to agree with the Japanese whose intention, expressed and implied, is to conquer a part of the Chinese territory and to impair the sovereignty of China. A reading of the current statements by Japanese leaders from Tokyo or the last interview by the Japanese Ambassador himself at Yokohama, not to say the book on The North China Problem by a Chinese, Dr. S. H. Hsu, may shatter the feeling of a good neigh-hour which the Chinese should possess. There can be no question that the Chinese Government has no intention whatever to go to war with Japan, but there is this question How can that Government afford to let the Incident to be closed with the loss of some more parts of territory or sovereignty?
The Japanese are "hard-boiled. Even with the latest modern equipment in their army, industry and commerce, they still retain the outlook and thought of the old time.
They are not willing to spare its shell even though they have eaten the good part of a peanut. Economic benefit is not enough to them. Commerce and goodwill must be bound ur with political submission or territorial conquest. And, strange to add, what security and equality mean to Japan are supremacy over and dictation to other nations!
If you are to blame the Chinese for their refusal to comprise, can you endorse the stubborn tance of the Japanese to reasonableness or moderation?
A Soper OBSERVER:
Shanghai, July 19.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.