New York, Jan. 19. There was sufficient evidence to show that Japan and the Japanese were suffering from strain because of her campaign in China, the "New York Times" said in an editorial today.
"Signs are not lacking that the|{. strain of the struggle with China is being felt increasingly by Japan," the editorial said.
The recent Cabinet change, though reflecting the expiration of the American-Japanese trade treaty, "can only be understood in terms of prevailing hardships and dissatistaction with the Government's effort to cope with them," the journal, said.
The "New York Times" pointed out that commodities in Japan had risen 16 per cent, last six months and were becoming increasingly scarce.
A. dispatch from Tokyo, it added, quotes an Oriental economist as saying that neither the scarcity nor high prices of commodities can be prevented so long as an "expansionist policy is pursued. Public expression on such heresy would not have been imaginable a year ago."
The publication of such expressions, the "New York Times" added, "shows is China Incident-is a bottomless pit into which is pouring Japan's manhood. There is hardly any recourse and there is no end in sight." United ess.
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