Viscoust Ishil's arrival in London has naturally excited a great deal of speculation, Japan does not send her most distinguished diplomat abroad without a very clear purpose and, as since said to Captain Hook of the crocodile which would follow the Captain about for another bite, "it's a kind of a compliment" that the Viscount should be sent to London, But what about the Greeks bringing gifts? There is a wide belief, the "Financial News" has twice voiced it in the past week, that Japan hopes to use her undoubted whip hand over the Customs and Shanghai as a lever to move us into acquiescence in her plans for iscount Ishii does not speak on platforms, It would be interesting, probably painful, to see what would happen if he did. But there is a good deal of quiet Japanese propaganda. The East of Asia News Service dis-
On the other hand as Mr. Cantho points out with unpleasant truth, the Japanese march "was intended to make the West lose face' in Shanghai" and "every time Japan flouts the West, the whole East ponders and marvels.
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