The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1938-06-06
jap Offensive Boys Down

Japan seems to be finding China a tougher and
tougher carload of nuts to crack The big japanese
mistake in this war seems to have been the sack of
Marking with the unrestrained footing, burning, kill
ing and rapjng that went with it. Japan's master
military minds expected this act of frightfulness to
break Chinese morale; instead, it did more to enrage
and unite the Chinese than any other single episode
of the war.
The weekend bombing of Canton, with 0OO civilians
killed. may have similar effect.
Japanese progress in Shantung and North China
has been slow. General Doiharas Lost Division is
reported have finally fought its way out of CHI
nese ring near Lanfeng, to be expected, the
Sedan type of victory being rare IN open warfare.
And the Japs claim substantial gains in the last two
DAYS. But japanese authority in conquered Chinese
territory is said to extend farther than Japanese
gun range Correspondents at Tensin the other night
counted IS troop trains coming in from Manchukuo.
And Russia is reported signing agreement to send
the Chinese two motorized divisions 72 fighting planes
and group of military techncians.
On the home front, the Japanese people are tighten
Ing their belts and paying more taxes. The war is
costing Japan $5,O0OOOO day.
The war isn't over, and the Jap
suppose Me anese aren't licked But certainly
C"'"eSe "" the Chinese putting up more re-
sistance than their best friends hoped.
: What if the Chinese win? We don't expect them
to try to swallow Marxism whole, the Russians
still trying to do; but do look for much more
equitable distribution of wealth than China has en-
joyed in long time. Rugged individualism, which
reached its ruggedes in China and accounted for
Chna's national impotence, doomed there as
elsewhere, We may yet see China one of the great
powers of the world.
This may sound like drawing long bow, but we find
in
history with the Swedes and the Dutch in certain past
stages of theirs.
NntiOnS in Nowadays, the Swedes and the Dutch
Their Prime two of the worlds most peaceful
peoples. Time was, though, when both
the Swedes and the Dutch fond Of starting wars
Sweden's fighting prime in the seventeenth and
early eighteenth centuries its two great warrior kings
being Gustavus Adolphus Q594-1632) and Charles XII
6978). Before that for centuries the Morse pirates
from the Scandinavian peninsula had been the terror OF
the coasts of Europe Gustavus Adophus took Den
mark Russia and Germany in succession, licked them ALL
and extended his empire to Munich and deep into Russia
He was the who really won the Thirty Years War;
Charles XII took Poland Denmark and Russia all at
He would have beaten them and absorbed most of
Europe except for the hard winter of 1909, wound in
his foot and dssension among his generals The Russian
defeat of the Swedes Potava June g. 1709 what
fed Sweden up with
Hollands golden age' occurred in the 1600s under
Frederick Henry, Prince OF orange ana william H. IL
was then that the Dutch carved out the East
Indies empire, still owned by Holland, and grabbed
Hudson Valley and big pieces of South America, which
Holland couldn't hold. On land, the Dutch fought the
Spanards the British and the Germans and stopped
only by the financial exhaustion of their dauness
try Since then the Dutch have cared little for conquest
We have feeling that the Japanese passing
through their prime fighting nation. They old
people historically but very young modern nation
An athlete has his years when he plays
Is japan in football boxes puts the shot for the
Its Prime? love of it; the time finally when he
loses his fondness for such things, be-
he is growing older So u.s. believe with nations
Plainly it is to interest that Japan lose this war,
decisivey and extensively if possible. We believe the
United States ought to do all in nice way to help
China win and thus help Japan toward peaceable middle
age. Our neutrality law is doing anything but that.
Meanwhile, must keep defenses up if we
to be SAFE We need Navy least as strong the
British Navy, and twice strong Japans.