That it has finally been decided to adopt one general flag, and that the sun flag to the without a Certain piquancy and is surely pretty clear evidence that Japanese policy in size up to the limitations of the enlarger, In some enlargers, the head can also be swung to a horizontal position, so that huge prints may be projected on a nearly wall. One type of precision enlarger is designed so that it can also be used as a camera. for taking pictures.
Chinese is not quite so "immutable," as people have always been led to believe, The Japanese themselves realize that this decision puts them in a ráther strange light and their spokesmen here have been at considerable pains to try and explain away the anomaly: the establishment of Mr. Wang Ching-wei's government, they say, does not really represent a breach with the past nor does it mean setting up a new form of government in China, All that is happening is that the present form of government is being continued, but under a new head. who happens to be friendly to Japan and anti-Comintern, instead of being anti japanese and pro-Comintern as were the "old gang." As there is no breach in continuity, a change of flag is therefore not necessary.
Some cynical observers, however. go as far as to suggest, that the adoption of the Kuomintang flag, after afl the abuse that the Japanese have lavished on that party in tne vast. is at bottom nothing more than a kind of re-insurance, in case the Wang Ching-wei government should prove a failure, and the Japanese were, in the end, forced to open negotiations once more with Gen. Chiang Kai-shek. However that may be, the adoption of the sun flag in the occupied territory is likely to lead to some comic situations in the future, seeing that in guerilla territory or "independent China" that flag still waves supreme. It would not be surprising, if the untutored Chinese peasant were to start wondering to himself, whether, after all, the Japanese had not surrendered to Gen. Chiang Kai-shek.
Japanese optimism regarding the outcome of the Tsingtao conference does not appear to be shared by well-informed Chinese circles here, and least of all by those close to the Provisonal government, where, in fact, there appears to exist considerable personal hostility to, and little confidence in, Mr. Wang Ching-wet Doubts have been expressed in these quarters, whether. even now at the last moment, he will really succeed in bringing off his coup. and whether.
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