Chinese Communist Crimes To the Editor of the "NonrH-CHiNA Day NEWS"
Sm—Your brave editorial of January 21 and the resulting discussion makes it almost necessary to talk about matters which we should rather have kept out of sight, Reports coming to the writer indicate that your editorial was a carefully restrained statement of facts However, there is another side to the question. Granting all that is reported, the barbarities perpetrated by the Japanese soldiers do not compare with what Chinese soldiers under Soviet leadership do.
The writer cannot forget the brutal and deliberate murder in peace time of those lovely American missionaries, John and Betty Stam. And a few years earlier the murder of those three C.LM, ladies in Kiangsi was of the same type, both being apparently under orders from Moscow. Missionaries have been living in Japan for years, but if there have been murders or captivities, they are: not reported.
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The unfortunate fact is that men seem to have forgotten the blessed civilizing influence of the Christian religion. In Old Testament times, such barbarities were considered legitimate. But one cannot imagine Chinese Garden, or General Robert E. Lee allowing such things.
The hope of the world lies in rallying again to the standards of the New Testament.
A BELIEVER.
1 February 19.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.