Over 120 lectures explaining Japan's case in the present Sino-Japanese hostilities were given in England by Mr. A. F., Thomas M.A. Professor of the University of Literature and Science, Tokyo, and formerly "Morning Post" correspondent in Tokyo, who passed through Shanghai yesterday on his return journey to Japan.
Mr. Thomas, who left Tokyo last November, in an interview with a representative of the "North-China Daily News" said that Japan had more friends in England than she imagined, but the British public felt that, though Japan had a good case, she had played'her cards badly. The reactions in Britain to the war favoured the Chinese sentimentally, chiefly because the Japanese had never stated their case, and, this silence was understood, in England, to be tantamount to an expression of guilt, The Chinese had a whole army of paid propagandists in England, and it was chiefly through their efforts that British public sentiment was on the side of the Chinese. There was, however, a tendency among the more conservative bodies to study the situation more closely, feeling that the Japanese would be a bulwark against Communism in the Far East. Religious groups were most antagonistic towards Japan.
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