Washington, Feb, 3.
The comparatively moderate tone of the speech of Mr. Hachiro Arita, the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the reopening of the Diet this week, shows the degree to which Japan is worried by the turn of events, the "Washington Post" commented yesterday.
"Mr. Arita's pledge that Japan is not seeking monopolies in China or planning the exclusion of third Powers, is all too obviously subject to the desires of the militarists, who have shown almost malicious delight in making liars of Japan's civilian leaders," the newspaper declared.—United Press.
Tau, slim, and full of vitality, both mental and physical, Major-General B.C. Freyberg who is to command New Zealand's Division in France, is the embodiment of the soldier spirit at its best. New Zealand is to be congratulated. A Victoria Cross and a D.S.O., with two bars (equivalent to three D.S.O.s) are eloquent tributes to his courage and initiative. He has served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, the Royal Naval Division, the Queen's (Royal West Surrey), the Grenadier Guards, and the Manchesters. He corunanded the "Hecd" Battalion in the BINO. the Grenadiers in the Guard: Divi and the Manchesters in peace-time. In the Great War Gen. Freyberg was mentioned in dispatches five times and wounded six times. He is still young—only 50,
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