Evening star., 1932-01-31
TOXIC REPLIES TO LONDON.
Pledges Safety to Britons-MacD Donald
Hurries to Capital


Hurries to Capital
LONDON, January 80 CP).- Prime
Minister Ramsay Macdonald returned
tonight from the North of England to
attend a conference presumably con-
cerning the developments in Shanghai.
Great Britain meanwhile was in
formed Of the Chinese governments in
tention to resist aggressive acts by
japanese forces and was assured by
Japan that everything possible would
be done 70 restore order in Shanghai.
The Japanese note was in reply to
a Joint protest by the United States
and Great Britain against the occu-
patton of the Chinese city and said
Japan would do all it could not to en-
danger British lives and property.
An unofficial source said Great Bri-
tain's policy toward declaration OF war
between China and Japan would be to
act only through the League Of Nations.
No official intimation Of a Chinese
declartion of war on Japan had been
received late tonight. but Chinas de-
cision to resist the japanese forces was
interpreted as meaning that China
would act in self-defense.
Japan Goes Too Far"
The Observer, one of the leading Sun
day newspapers, said in an editorial
that Japan goes too far" and declared
the dominant principle of the British
foreign policy was Anglo
friendship. If Japan went an inch
further she would definitely ALLEVIATE the
sympathies of the world-RusSia IN =
cluded," the editorial added
Lord Rothermeres Sunday dispatch,
on the other hand, said Japan is an old
and faithful ally Of this country ana
we need not fear that she will act detrl-
mentally to our interests. In protecting
her own people, she Is doing no more
than Britain has been forced 10 40 on
numerous occasions"
Lord Beaverbrook'S Sunday Express
said that in view of the dramatic
irony" of a declaration of war on the
eve of the World Disarmament Con-
ference Great Britain should recall her
delegates from Geneva, where the arms
parley is to be held. withdraw from the
conference, save the money and attend
to her own business at home.
The Sunday Times said the great ma
tions must act to show that the world
had learned the lesson of 1914.
Referring to Anglo-American friend
ship. the Observer said never yet was
this guiding principle so critically es-
sential as now"
1T is the very sheet anchor OF the
worlds peaceful stability" the Oo-
server said without steady Anglo
American understanding, there coulo
be no hope at all for the peacetul 1u-
ture of civilization.
League Held POwerless.
"The League of Nations, by itself, IS
quite impotent to preserve peace. MOST
especially sis this so In the tnunoe[-
charged atmosphere of Far Eastern al
fairs" H..
1anan, the newspaper said it justified
,Japan's defense of her treaty rights
in Manchuria, but the arbitrary at
tack on China proper and especially
AFT Shanghai is another matter.
Markings declaration of war is not
of flrst-class significance, but 1t Is
capital diplomatic event.
I'VE scout utterly the suggestion OF
another Great War Our japanese
friends are safe from that. But not
from a slower, long-term procedure
which would promote the steady or
sanitation of China in manner bound
in the long run to be fatal to Japan'S
future on the mainland, even in Man
churia.
1--WE admit that the League has
Numbered grossly on the latter question
and has infamed the japanese people
with a sense of injustice. But at
Shanghai Japan has gone too far"
FRENCH TROOPS. READY.