The claims made by the Chinese to have inflicted a heavy defeat upon the Japanese in the vicinity of Taierchwang are given prominence in the press today.
"It looks," says the News-Chronicle in a leading article, "as if Japan is getting into hot water. Chinese victories are not to be measured in terms of ground reconquered, but in terms of weeks lost to the Japanese—whose toughest enemy is delay—and in the divisions and equipment that the Japanese have to send into China, to their own weakening at home and on the borger of Manchuria, where they face a formidable Power, Russia, "Judged by this realistic standard, the Chinese are winning every "day victories for themselves and for the cause of peace and order in the world."
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