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...Meanwhile on the Eastern Front, Northern Sector, Japan won a battle of words which has been dragging on in Tokyo since July 15: the parleys on Tientsin (where 59-year-old Widow Mary Frances Richard, a U. S. citizen, last week had her face slapped for sassing a sentry). Japan did not capture the objective she seemed to want-British acquiescence in Japanese control of North China currency; but she did achieve what she really wanted-a breakdown of the parleys. The British Government made its first strong stand in the whole engagement by firmly refusing to discuss the currency...
This week, with greater impartiality than most diplomatic arbitrators show, the River Hai (pronounced High) flooded Tientsin-Japanese and British Concessions alike. Barbed wire on wooden trestles and wooden sheds for searching and stripping were washed away. The barbed wire blockade was off; a water blockade-of the whole city-was on. ^ In Shanghai, Sergeant W. L. Kinloch of the International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting...
...Japanese are a race of involuntarily short men with voluntarily short memories. Last week Tokyo newspapers published a warning issued by the Japanese Military at Tientsin: Unless Great Britain showed a more sincere attitude and stopped deliberately delaying the Tokyo parleys on Tientsin issues, the Japanese Army would soon pull some more high jinks to make Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's blood boil...
...London the British Government formally announced that not only would the four alleged puppet-killers in Tientsin be handed over, but also a fifth man, previously unmentioned. The British proudly stated that the fifth man had been surrendered only with the proviso that the British Consul General could occasionally go and look at him to make sure that he was not being tortured...
...week's end Japanese Ambassador-at-Large Sotomatsu Kato warned Sir Robert that unless Great Britain resumed negotiations within 24 hours, the Army delegations would break up the parley, go back to Tientsin, set off another boiler under Neville Chamberlain. After 24 hours the parley was still recessed. Without losing their tempers, the soldiers buckled on their swords and flew back to China. "If Britain mends her ways," said one, "we might come back...