London, Jan. 4.
The New Year message of Prince Konoye, the Japanese Premier, is not calculated to encourage undue optimism, declares the "Manchester Guardian" in a leading article to-once was known as the China incident," the journal tes, is now admitted to be a long-term battle with no end in sight.
Emphasizing that Japan is in no position to dictate peace terms, the news; says that ultimately the fall of Nanking may not prove to be even a moral disaster. It clearly marked the end of the Nanking Gov-it asserts, and the emer gence of a Chinese Government based on a far wider section of the Chinese peop Japanese the "Ma chester Guardian" concludes, went to war with the Nanking Government, but they will have to make peace wit the Chinese nation.
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