It Is to be regretted that numerous Ineldents have arisen between Great Britain and Japan and that they tend, of late, to assume increasing gravity, While this tendency may be attributed to various causes and circumstances, "it seems to. the Japanese naval authorities that the British fail suMelently to appreciate the seriousness of the present state affairs involving a large-scale conflict. is our impression that flits tendency is caused principally the absence of suifleient wniderstanding "among the British of the necessity of Japanese defensive and strategic measures and by" the pearance created that the British seem to be insisting upon their Fights in general as if" conditions were normal Moreover, the Japaneses authorities cannot but' show their deepest. con-corn with the measures, taken by the British authorities in protecting their interests in China, tending benefit the regime of Gen. Chiang The Japanese naval authorities hope that the British authorities wilt ive their calm and careful recon: Fideration to the matter above parts of China. Tu particular, four photographs of the procession which took place at Kaifent recently and AL which reportedly 5,000 persons slthon ud the bonniers carried took part, are prominently: displayed
by the throng, nothing' outstanding, appears in either of them. Two pictures showing Chinese women ind children ems given exits rations of rie by. the Japanese ott the oveusion of the Japanese Emperor's birthday on May 15 are also displayed as a counterpart to the alleged British cruelties perpetrated The characters on the posters indicate that those responsible for their writing, have a poor knovledze of the Chinese language," Shanghat dialect "and Mandarin cha being freely intermingled
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