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general STATS, that led to China's de-
feat. Individual Chinese generals had
as many OF 100000 or 100000 men
under their command. but lacked
trained general STATS and hence were
totally incapable Of utilizing their
forces effectively.
Mass Defeated Purpose.
Foreign military experts who
examined Hankow's defenses agree
that had these been manned by the
Americans, British, or French, they
would have been impregnable, but that
though the Chinese generals threw
their men into them. their mere mass
alone defeated their purposes The
Chinese soldiers, who have never
learned the strategy of attack. huddled
in mass formations. determined to die,
and permitted themselves to be plowed
under.
What of the future?
Those Chinese sympa thizers who ex-
pect Wholesale guerrilla attacks upon
the japanese positions are likely to be
doomed to disappointment. The ef-
fectiveness of such attacks can be
promptly discounted. The guerrillas
will in time become rowing bands of
bandits. a condition which in past
years has afflicted the interior of
China. They can wreck railroads and
overturn trains. but they will fail to
loosen Japans grip upon her con-
quered territory. They lack organiza-
ton, lack supplies, lack morale
Can Japan make her control COM
plete over more than one-fourth of
China? Can Japan develop that ter
ritory? Let those who say that Japan
controls only the railroad zones and
seacoast ponder over the fact that
not single shipment of goods can
move anywhere in China's richest area
without japanese consent.
Chinese Buy From japanese.
Will the Chinese buy japanese goods ?
They are already doing so on a COM
paratively large scale, more so than
any other foreign imports. Goods in
great quantities overstock Shanghai's
and other city warehouses. Their
labels are changed or erased. they
J are taken to railroads. where Chinese
merchants receive them for distribu-
ton. we'll aware that the articles are
Japanese goods, but winking their eye
at the deceit.
Can Japan finance her new terri
torial control? Yes, in time. though
at present only two. perhaps three.
lending nations-chiefly the United
States and Great Britain-exist.
America will not lend and Japan is
not on friendly terms with Britain.
But Britain is veering her sails to
catch the new breeze, as she did with
Italy and Ethiopia.
Although British interests have been
hard hit by Japan's action in East
Asia, the British already have revised
their opinions about Japan. Already
they are talking in terms of harvest
of investments shortly becoming due"
Recovery Program Prospect.
In the course of time, now that
all appeals abroad have fallen on deaf
ears, the Chinese themselves will,
as matter-of- fact businessmen. CO.
operate with the Japanese in China.
For the present there will be created
governments at Peking, Nanking, Han
kow and Canton, with eventual pros
poets of amalgamation. but recovery
program can and will be instituted
with fair chances Of success even
before a new central authority-ac-
cepting Tokio's dictates-will be
achieved.
AS far as the outside world is con-
cerned, it must quickly learn these
lessons: % That no large-scale busi-
ness can be conducted in China in
the future without Japanese consent,
| (2) that when Japan says she will do
something, she will, and nothing short
of armed conflict can deter her, and
(3) that, further, when the Chinese
warlords say that they will fight to
the bitter end" it means that they
are on the point of wholesale retreat,
or, as witness Canton, it means COM
plete sellout.
tCopyright, 1898. bs the Chicago Daily
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