Listeners in Shanghai were much impressed attack have scanty means of retaliation. La Nanking the provision of up-to-date anti-aircraft artillery and the institution of a well-organized scheme of bomb-proof refuges for the civil population have reduced the toll of lives, although even there the deaths are high enough. In Canton where urban life is far more congested, and no preparations have been made for giving the inhabitants protection other than that of anti-aircraft guns or defending aeroplanes, the tale of killed and wounded is ghastly beyond words. Between Shanghai and Nanking whole villages have been wiped out from the air, so it is reported by travellers, The story of Soochow's travail is now added to the list.
The plain intention is to wear down the morale of the people in the hope that it will thereby be unable to give the Government the united support necessary for further resistance. How far these calculations will prove to be well-founded the event must tell, Indications that the terror from the air is merely stiffening resentment of the people as a whole are not lacking. Japan's aeroplanes are credited having dropped thirty ions. of bombs Nanking in the last air-raid on the They are said to be capable of dropping fifty tons daily for a prolonged period. The prospect seems appalling, but even so the grim question must be asked whether it really will achieve te apewru desired. If the answer ultimately negative, ar even grimmer question will be asked: What of Japan?
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