Listeners in Shanghai were much pressed Jon the evening of September 23, alien at the [conclusion of reading the latest news which fave accounts of the terrible casualties anion and the further air-raids on Nanking, the announcer at Daventry broke off to express the view that all listening would wish to tsoclate themselves in the deepest. sympathy with the bereaved relatives. of the. victims /Those who know the conservative " policy which governs the British Broadcasting Cor-Doration's "handling of its news programmes {will appreciate the. significance of this tribute [There te no doubt that the messages recording the details of this systematic bombing _of [Chinese cities by the Jepanese air forces are making a most painful impression—all the more Because itis recognized that objects of the stisek have scanty' means of retaliation, In Nanking the provision of up-to-date anti-sireraft rullery and'the institution of a well-organized scheme of bomb-proof refuges for the civil population have reduced. the' toll of lives, st though even there the deaths are high enough in Canton where urban life is far more con: [gested and no preparations have been made for fiving the Inhabitants protection other than {hat of antiaircraft. 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, s0 it fs reported by travellers. The story fof Soochow's travail ts now added to the Ist.
The plain Intention Is to wear down the morale te people in the hope that it will thereby the unable to give the Government the united founded the event must tell. Indications thi the terror from the alr is merely stiffening the resentment of people aa whole are not Tacking. Japan's aeroplanes are credited with the objective desired. be in the negative, an even grimmer question will be asked: What of Japan?
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