To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Chima Darcy News"
Sm,—I venture to join issue both with your editorial entitled "Confusion of Thought" and with the letter from your correspondent "R.K." published simultaneously today.
For the past six years Liberals in this part of the world have been put the position. because of official inaptitude or indifference to international commitments, of having to stand by and see one part of China after another crushed under the Japanese army's heel. Specious explanations in Tokyo, accepted too often in official quarters at their face value, have tended to obscure the real principles at stake. so that it has hech difficult until now to mobilize decent world opinion in favour of condemnatory action of a positive character calculated to bring home to the people of Japan the fact that To the Editor of the "Mobrh-ChixA Dary News"
Sm,—When the whole world is shocked and horror-stricken by the Japanese aerial bombings of noncombatants, and when the Chinese Delegates in Europe make stirring appeals to the Great Powers, I often wonder why no stir is made "bout the bombings of Nanking Road and cther places, by the Chinese Air Force in which non-combatants suffered isses, While I feel the terrible injustice in killing Chinese non-combatants, and realize the fact that every effort should be put.forth by all the Fowers to suppress such atrocities, I think that before the Chinese Government can hope and expect the sympathy of Foreigners, they should on their part, not only avoid such incidents themselves, but do something to compensate those of the unfortunate victims who suffered losses of life and limb.
1 cannot sympathize with either China and Japan as I feel incompetent enough to judge either one or the other, but my pathy goes ovt to the boys, both Chinese and Japenese. who are laying down their lives, for a cause in which they have the least to gain. for the most they can expect to get back alive and well, and on-nue in the struggle for an existence where they left oft.
What tortures and agonies these unfortunate men and boys undergo, none of us can realize at present, and the horrors resulting from this will be borne by Japanese and Chinese men, those who stand least to gain.
Of the tears that are being shed by the fatherless and widows, disease and want, and all the results of this war, ought to make both parties call r halt to this slaughter.
I was unfortunate enough to be near the Cathay Hotel when the bombs dropped by the Chinese planes took the lives of two members of my family, and several other foreigners, besides many Chinese, and I think the Chinese Government should investigate this. matter and do all they can io wipe away this blot resting upon them.
A Baisu Vici.
Shanghai, Oct. 3:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.