To the Editor of the *Norm-Cuana Dany Nrws"
Smt appreciate very much Barrow Peacrataxs's reply amy Teller published In your paper' yesterday. IE he does not find oquaclousness, T hope he will read the following Nines trid not consider thee as superfluous.
"Though T'am an ordinary man in tne street without "any "connection with otelat quarters, T-am confident That the views as expressed, In. first etter are iw perfect. keeping with those of responsible. ofias, whose pronouncements pertaining. 16 present criss have been published and expounded by the vernacular ready pointed out in my frst letter, peace, It it is desired fat this moment, must emanate from Topan, who is after all ile originator of the present war. Therefore, whollier early cessation of the hostilities ran be effected is " question only the epanesa can answer. BRITISH Peacestaxen's "dream of peace could come true if, and when, the men at the helm of Japan's pollileal machin" ery. should "abandon the idea of beating China to. her Knees" And Ino doubt 1 would personally. join in Eis plea for negotiation 1 snd. when the "invading forces should be withlarawn from the Chinese sell to their 'That a protracted war will in the Jong. run exhaust Japan's foancial resources is a view held by all competent observers, foreign ae. well [Chinese, "The fact that Japan ts contemplating to accelerate the conclu. sion' of her "punitive campaign" Speaks fox) the correctness of the view. Brarist Peacestaxen has raised, however, a. time question fwhieh' no man of men may lieable'
answer—to. his satisfaction with mathematical exactness.
"The connivance of the SALE. and foreign powers atthe uso of the International Settlement by the ypanese se a inllitery base for operations against the Chinese is a feontributary, if not the principal, fause of the local conflict Never theless, we Chinese fully understand ditteult position the SMC. 1s in. We are not" unaware that foreign powers have other preoccupations of we ital" importance. But considering the magnitude of damages and losses which neutral us well as Chinese have so far incurred, our custodians End protectors of. the Seltlement Jannat be exonerated from the blame for their "Japanophobia."
Regarding the question as to who last violated the Truce Agreement of 1532, 1 has become un seademic issue for' historians to solve... Barrsi, Pracesanen seems to me a bit too dogmatic In laying the responsibility {or the Shanghai hosiliies upon the [shoulders of the Chinese. His reter-fence to the loess condition In. 1027 finvetving the safety of the British Tationals connotes that the" Chinese Ihave. long cherished an attempt to fattsck' the Japanese before the out Break of the present conflict ana that, therefore, the use of the Settlement by, the Japanese as a military base jusiiged, "His contentions are much Pesctcacers delusion, {Selle conde nating beter than fo drew attention fo MEDINO lester of fovday'under™ the tile of "The Kigwey China Iso sovereign sale. Many respects ey" the evince of Bin rapetsoy_the cine Seitements snd confessing she" will
sppeatencs "of unber anomalies inno cheumsanee alow Rrerefore, any plan of malm Ghongeat' ative clay whether finder " mandate of China's tative' or otherwise, fe out of Ihe Firs, T want 40 remind the gentle man' that when this neitraliy plan was proposed at the beginning of the htiltes, the Chinese government immediately. indicated its readiness. 10 feonsider it; and It was the Japanese government who turned it down. This portant International episode hep: [pened not Jong ago, and ihust have Impressed the wellsntentioned mediators as to which party Is to be held to" blame," Secondly, he. seems" Ihave tilery failed to appreciate the Fei, meaning of the present, conte taking it as a mere repetition the 1082 incident, "We must make It clear that the local war of 1082 was tone between the Japanese government fend the 10th Route Army with a few Prace- other sympathisers, while the present taxe's plea for peace, Which 1s no feonfict is one part of a war (though [doubt earnest and. well-intentioned. stil undeclared) between China and, T''suppose he must have' sustained [Sapan which ig raging at least on [considerable damages as a result of four different fronts. Shanghai being {he present war. It is my" sincere tone of them, 'Therefore, 0: long hope' that he wt recover is loses this war carries on. peace for Shang fas" soon. as normalcy prevails again that 18 Impossible. 'There is one prev-in Shenghai, "But during the present ent pellet among. foreign circles tris, 1 wish he—and other foreign fiat ie war can be kept away' from friends" too—would "understand [Shenghai, thie port will instantly bask [China's position and her aspirations. in. permanent and. prosperity. We are fully cognizant that foreign Bute Tot us ask fg it Possible nh business men here consider Shang tha's tranquility, and prosperity as present case? If all China is Thrown into the throes of a long thole ret "lite-tines!" To the farawn_ out war, a struggle for' pte [Chinese, however, the existence of fand death, in which destruction and {ele fatherland, which is now at Fum of a' great part of her domain stake, Is of first' consideration, other would be Ineviteble, will commerce Interests being' painfully subordinate fand trade in Shanghat go on flourish [ea it not entirely neglected. ing in the sunshine of sublime isola tion as the ease was in the civil war
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