Mr, Wang Ching-wet's latest appeal for peace will in all probability prove no more effect than have his previous utterances on the same subject, but there are certain aspects about it which do require emphasis. 1t is probably quite true by now that the Japanese hae indeed come to " realization that China can cover be destroyed, for if nothing else could, the experi ence of the past twenty-three months should have shown her the impossibility of her ever being able to hold the whole of this vast terri-ory under subjection. Except for scattered Positions throughout a very large section of China, the Japanese armies are by no means in full control of the areas through' which they have passed. The guerillas are managing maintain an annoying and costly form of activity which denies the Japanese an opportunity of consolidating their pains, and at the present moment a position of military stalemate ap-Pears to have reached in which the Japanese armies neither move forward nor retreat. do the former would require an even greater effort that has already been made; to do. the latter would be an admission of defeat which would prove unprofitable. With the Japanese more deeply committed than ever before, with space and time fighting on the side of the Chinese, it is more than likely that Mr. Wang's appeal will fall upon deaf ears so far as Chung ing is concerned, and if that proves to be the case peace will be just as far away asit was before Mr. Wang issued his latest appeal for it. There is no very great change in the heart of the Chinese even where they have passed under control of the Japanese. Displays of forced enthusiasm for the victors will deceive no one, for there is underlying It that stubborn hatred born of all the Chinese have had to endure during the course of these hostilities. What Is more the Japanese have signally failed to produce one leader of renown willing to assist them in rest peace and order in the areas which they have occupied. Marshal Wu Pei-fu is as coy as ever he was, and there is little justification for the belief that if Mr. Wang himself were to come into the open and head a government under Japan ese domination he gain much support, To disagree with the policies of Generalissimo Chiang. Kai-shek is one thing, to come out Jopenly in support of the enemies of China is entirely another, and Mr. Wang by publication fof these appeals of his has placed himself in a thoroughly unfortunate light, certainly not one which is likely to attract much of a following.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.