Former Editor of "North China Daily News" Gives Impressions of Position can develop the Bürima-Yunnan trade route; aid"alsó, às à friendly neutral, assert her capacity for affording financial assistance -to China.
In so doing, she can give to Japan a proper answer—all the more proper because it is in accord with the elementary" decéficiés of intérmational amity which, despite everything, have not yet been entirely abandoned by the West.—Reuter, 000,000.—Domei.
Some 17. Chinese shing junks operating in Hongkong. territorial waters and along the "oasis of Macao, says a report to the "Sir Wan Pao," were seized by Japanese naval units recently. Chinese fishermen in Hongkong, the report adds, have decided temporarily not to set out io sea again.
London, Dec. 20.
"Can Japan consolidate her gains in China?" is the title of an article in the "Daily Telegraph" today, contributed by Mr. Edwin Howard, former editor of the "North-China Daily News" of Shanghai.
"Mr. Howard' states that, starting with the- intention of creating an economic bloc of North China and Manchoukuo; Japam has now to achieve ' tómjléte! conquest.
Anything: else would be tantamount to stalemate, and virtual defeat, so that, as the struggle continues, the rights of British and other foreign traders in Chine likely to be even more seriously threatened than during the past 18 months.
Back Door in: Burma China is fighting strongly with her back to the wall, Mr. Hawaid con-
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