Berlin, Aug. 27 The attack on Sir Hughe Knatch bulldHugessen, the British Ambassador, is the leading feature in all newspapers.
The incident, according to the "Berliner. Tageblatt." accentuates, very sharply, developments in the Far Fast, which have been the subject of earnest deliberations in London, Washington and Paris, The anxiety of the British. public, the journal declares, has grown, as it is increas ingly realized how much British prestige is at stake in Eastern Asia.
"Great Britain obviously wants to avert a dispute with Japan, and the intensification of matters in the Far Bast does not fit in with the programme of British policy," declares the "Allgemeine Zeitung." The situation in the Mediterranean, adds the newspaper, has not yet been calmed, America does not want to commit herself, and Britain is not yet ready for an Eastern policy.—Reuter, New York Condemnation New York, Aug. 27.
Strong condemnation of disregard for neutral nationals in the hostilities between China and Japan_is expressed to-day by the "New York Herald "This undeclared war," says the newspaper, "has been deliberately developed by means of evading whatever shreds remain of the legal restraints which society has sought to throw around the doctrine of brute force in international offal The misfortune which has befallen the British Ambassador in China, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, " the "New York Times" declares, has naturally and unmistakably deepened the concern felt in England for the safety of British lives and property.
The journal adds that the hopes so recently entertained in Tokyo for the revival of the old Anglo-Japanese Alliance "must now be written
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