'To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Cuana Dany' News! aims. He urged China to face reality. And what he meant by this is that China should not resist Japan's aggression and should accept the fait faccomplt J.e, yield to the Japanese et them have North Sm—Those who witnessed at Arst hand' the ordeal of those residing in Chapel during the hostilities of 1932 can well sympathize with the present wild scramble for safety. When one considers the sad plights of non-com= Datants In the initial encounters. in North China one is not apt to make ght of the potential danger threaten-Ing those living in the exposed areas adjacent to Shanghai, and the influx is, therefore, altogether' natural and to be expected. There is no denying that danger exists for the situation serious; not only the Chinese are feeing for safety but the Japanese are evacuating In vast numbers.
"Yet in spite of the dark outlook the hope for peace is not dead. Competent Chinese and Japanese are Wworking towards that end. Chins does not desire war and will not fight unless forced into it. It is pre~ sumed that "the Japanese do not favour war if they can secure the ac~ ceptance of their rigid terms without fighting. Tt is_much cheaper that way. The Central Government has done ite utmost to localize the encounters and refrained from using its fir and land forees in the defence of Pingisin area, Had these participated, the Initial success of the Japanese could not have been obtained so cheaply nor so. quickly. The non~ participation of the Chinese alr force had cost China dearly in lives of soldiers and civilians for Japanese lr squadrons were ruthless in bomb-{ng and machine-gunning the Chinese besides acting as eyes of their infantry.and artillery. The 29th Army jete not only. onl-equipped but had fight practically blindfolded and subjected to overhead attack, Ther not the slightest doubt that China sincerely desires peace, but will Japan meet her, say even one third of the way?
Your excellent journal and some of its foreign contemporaries have pleaded for a peaceful liquidation of the present trouble and it Is fair to osfume that these reflect the ery tallied opinion of the non-Japanese foreign community, but 1 regret that far no. tangible suggestions for peace—firm offers for peace—have been evident emanating from the for~ Sign community, T do not think the Judiclous offering of good oftces would be at variance with the mai feited indisposition on the part, of the Japanese to extraneous inter~ ference which is applicable only to oMieious busy-bodies. The well-intended friendly intervention of interested parties should be suffered by all means, Japan has freely played Chinese against Chinese #01 may be excused for playing not "one foreign state Against another" but for attempting to play all foreign states against one. However 1 will play fair by for warning you to be careful of what Lam about to say. All T ask is that you think it over carefully. China is only one of the markets of your country "and. perhaps your govern= ment and people do not attach much Importance to it, but to you who are here, this is your market. A market full of potentialities of development and one that had token your pre-Gecessors decades and decades. to bulld up. Are you going to stand stilt and nonchalantly seo it destroyed without doing anything to prevent it? 1 know you are only too prone to hold meetings and pass resolutions calling your home government to, protest "against any insignificant regulation of the Chinese Government, Dut here some terrific thing Is happening and you stand ike one. stupor. Why the silence and inactivity Shanghai, Aug. 9.
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