ABSTRACT
FOR diplomatic purposes Japan maintained, after the Shanghai adventure that must now be related, that it must be regarded as something entirely separate from the Manchurian affair, while the Chinese insisted that it was all a part of the same monstrous aggression. Nobody recording the events of this period can regard them as separate except in so far as they require a separate description. That they were happening simultaneously was the least of their connections. They had common causes and their effects cannot be entirely separated. Japan’s stipulations, when asked what were her terms for peace in Manchuria, included a better observance of the treaties, the prohibition of the boycott, and the abolition of anti-Japanese movements and anti-foreign education. The offences thus indicated were later given as the leading causes for the trouble in Shanghai, where, indeed, they were more in evidence than in Manchuria.
