'There is no doubt a very strong! pro-German sentiment among the majority of the officers of the Japanese army, but this has little to do with their treatment of the British community at Tientsin, which had begun long before the' outbreak of the European war. The blockade of the Tientsin Concessions is kept up. by the Japanese garrison with spocifie local and political objects in view, rather than for reasons of general policy, with which these somewhat Fndepéndently-minded gentlemen are less concerned, The objects would appear to be: threefold: to impress on their "ale lies" of north China, how the power ful Japanese army is able to. insult and humiliate, without interference, the subjects of a great Western power: to make life so. unbearable British community that final-will demand that China; and, last but no, least, the very considerable income derived from the illegal levies collected at the barriers.
Tt is, therefore, most improbable that, in the very' unlikely event of the ' British government agreeing to recognize the Wang Ching-wei regime Jor making some other concession on general policy, that even then such concessions would bring about fend of the blockade at Tientsin.
Japanese military gentlemen there make "no bones" of their attitude and have often enough told Chinese and other foreigners that the Japanese army at Tientsin is the deciding Severe Earthquake Wuchow Fire Causes Hits Yunnan Hongkong, Apr. 13.
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