Hot-boatied Japanese Commanders on Spot Blamed Problem; Japanese Firm For Impasse; Effect of Sanctions Canvassed On Demands London, June 20. D nection with the Tientsin situation is made in the leading for strong action by the British Government in con-
British newspapers this morning.
"Great Britain should have no truck with the firebrands in command at Tientsin," states the "Daily Mail."
"If Tokyo," it adds, "has not the power—or will—to restrain them, our only course must be to take active steps of our own to protect our ~interests,"
The "News-Chronicle" declares that the Government must surely be aware that, in such a situation, the conclusion of an Anglo-Russian pact must be expedited, Mr, Chamberlain, the newspaper asserts, once again told the House yesterday that discussions were still proceeding.
It was high time, it adds, that they were completed.
"There is no doubt," the "Manchester Guardian" says, "that responsible leaders in Japan fear British economic reprisals a good deal more than they care. to admit.
"It is probably true that nothing Great Britain could do alone would have an immediate effect, and it is possible that, without the co-opera tion of the United States, no econo-mie pressure would be decisive, but British "sanctions" alone would be enough to imperil Japan's financial stability—if such a respectable word can be used at all to describe her precarious situation.
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