The "Financial Times," admitting the difficulty of obtaining a united front on a political issue where particularly valuable commercial interests are involved, suggests that a Japanese boycott may be worth considering even on commercial grounds, since the China market, which in the event of a Japanese success is liable to be closed to the western world, is far more valuable than the Japan market, The "Daily Mail" says that, however closely Japanese airmen sought to limit their efforts to military targets, "the fact remains that Japanese war "planes have doomed to death hundreds of helpless noncombatants of all ages, Men, women and children in whole areas of no military significance have been laid to waste. Japan's aerial operations have shocked and caused consternation ' among other nations"—
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