"The Times" Sees Lengthy Fighting Ahead London, Sept. 10.
An editorial on the progress of hostilities in China published in "The Times" to-day, says that a de-incisive Japanese success on any front is highly Improbable before: late autumn at the very earliest, nor is it possible to envisage any single success which would automatically end the war. This is the view taken by Japan herself.
The Japanese blockade of the Chinese coast must, sooner or later, have its effect on China's large but erratically compiled rè- serves of war material," "The Times" asserts.
At this time, the newspaper con-eludes. it is impossible to predict to what extent that effect will be offset by supplies of arms reaching her overland, but one consequence of the blockade will certainly be to enhance the sinister implications which Tokyo reads into the Sino-Soviet Pact.
"With Sympathy"
The whole world is watching with sympathy the gallant fight being put lup by the Chinese outside Shanghai, declares an editorial in the "News Chronicle.'
There can rarely have been a war in which the sympathies of neutrals were so overwhelmingly on, one side, the newspaper continues, fapan's usual apologists in this country are silent," it points out, "and even the Germans, cently signed an pact with Tokyo, are notably their references to the war."
China's strategy, the © "News-Chronicle" adds, is to hold up the Japanese advance as stubbornly as possible in order that the war may
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