"That a Chinese city in the heart of our snered province could see its people so ruthlessly massacred by an alien army fills us with horror, Shall we submit to all this display of force? Even at this moment, Japan is sending num= bers of destroyers to still other parts of China to continue their butchery. What are her intentions She does not need 26,000 troops to protect her nationals, Tt ig not difficult to see that the Japanese Government ix once more on its path to subdue and conquer the province of Shantung into a state of complete vassalage, a task which, wax begun many years buck and Justly abhorred and condemned by the whole wide world, We believe that the world will again this time raise its voice of protest to all this barbarism and cruelty. We believe that the more the world becomes afflicted, the firmer will our conscience be sup= ported by a sense of Justice and Humanity.—Imagine the horrors which, even as we send you this wire, are being continued and pro-Ienged. Those that are alive ave ing, those that are dead are groaning for burial, for the land of ur onered province in litered with carrion and mutilated corpses. Women of the world, let us help to suppress this horror!
(Seal) "The National Council of Women of China (Seal) "Shanghai Women Suffrage Assoziation, nghai_ Women's Club,
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