London, June 28.
Japan has chosen, particularly in the last few weeks, to challenge the british attitude in China to destroy British interests there, says "The Times" today.
"The challenge," it adds, "if it persists, will be taken up.
4 "Japan is more vulnerable than mossi nations to economic pressure. Her newly-built industries depend almost entirely on imports from abroad—very largely from different parts of the British Empire and almost wholly from countries which, having important interests in China, might be willing to' join a policy of long-range embargo on' exports from Japan.
"Japan's army is embarrassed on the mainland. She is not well placed to sustain a long economic struggle.
Fortunately, there is no reason to believe that the Japanese Government is prepared to drive matters to this extreme.
It, may be well to point out that it it, did come to a war, the long trade routes of Japan would be open to an attack without the employment of very much larger naval and aerial forces than are already available in the East, and that Japanese communications with China are also particularly vulnerable."
"There is earnest hope that a settlement will be reached," "The Times" concludes, "but the patience of the British public is not inexhaus-
Show of Strength Urged Sydney, June 28.
"The point has been reached at which the British Government must decide whether any action can have consequences more damaging than those being inflicted now," declares the "Morning Herald" in an outspoken editorial published today on the situation in Tientsin.
"If recent European history is not to be repeated in the Far East," the journal asserts, "Japan must quickly be shown that Great Britain is neither unwilling nor unable to take reprisals for insults and injuries wantonly imposed on her.'—Reuter.
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