"Lo Journal" was more optimistic. It stated the situation to be serious but not dramatically so, since "the gravity of any eventual international conflict induces all parties to deal carefully with incidents however serious they may be."
But violent clashes may occur." it added, "when Britain and France will be compelled to resist further attacks on their rights.
"Japanese stubbornness in refusing a compromise justifies some anxiety owing to present circumstance it is not by chance that the Tientsin incident took place at a moment when Japan was most anxious over the prospect of an Anglo-Franco-Russian alliance."
This newspaper concluded with the remark, "This is not the least disquieting aspect of the whole affair."
Meanwhile, "Lo Matin" reported today that a joint Anglo-French protest would be lodged with the Tokyo Gaimusho over the "siege" of the British and French Concessions in Tientsin.—Havas
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