Describing themselves as being opposed to the adoption of any such shleidal measures as a general strike order to. surmount the present rational crisis, the Greater Shang bal Chamber of Commerce, ina manifesto ierned on Seturday, nigh, urges that at this moment of acts Rational emergency, the "people Should adopt towards the Cental Government an attitude, not of I trust and resentment, but rather one of ce-operation and' peaceful. per~ Suasion. While expressing, dissatis-action with the efforts s0'far made by: the Government in coping with the Sino-Japanese crisis, the Cham. her however deprecates the attitude mistrust and passive obstruction taken by certain sections of the People, The manifesto begins by pointing out that there are two fundamental Drineipals "which the Government must follow in dealing with the Sino-Japanese conflict, These are: (Q) adoption of effective of self-defence, and (2) vindication of all the rights to which China is entitled under the League Covenant 4s member-State of tha Lea The manifesto charges that the Government, as shown by the events
to live up to both the past! two, months, has fled to bitter disappointment and. consequent resentment of the people is only to be expected the ruanifesto points out, Continuing, the manifesto says that in the opinion of the Chamber, the people, instead of giving vent to their resentment, should remonstrance and 's0 that th ment may be brought to the mis-fakes it may have committed in its foreign policy. On its part, the Government should be ready to lst en to and act upon the recommend: tions of the people.
Mutual mistrust and antagonism between the Government. and the people at the present juncture will only serve to weaken China's power to resist the foreign aggression, says the Manifesto.
In this grave national crisis, the Chamber, a the representative business community, never hesitated to urge upon the merchants the adoption of any measure which, in its opinion, are really beneficial to the country. Thus, although the losses which have resulted from the anti-Japanese boy: ott are almost unprecedented in Shanghai, the Chamber hes always red. the merchants to. persevere in making what the Chamber con siders a necessary sacrifice for the nation. On the. either hand, the amber has made every effort to promote the production of native foods, the stabilization of currency and finance in order that the founda-ton for national salvation, may The Chamber can not however bring itself to. follow' blindly any shen tht iene be uipend "For such a step can not the slightest: harm to' our enemies, but will instead undermine the very: vitality of the motion. suicidal step, which, Hf adopted, can only serve to "hasten our own tiaienc nae the manent that the take anal salvation in conclusion, the manifesto urges
must be accomplished through: taal ce-operation, not through puss sive obsteuction.—Kuo. Mine Sth. Boapeh, the Banden 'Communism, and who vas' tater he, ce ced tee abe en a
eemepentes (rhe as, ice tered on canty and ard 0, Stone ie Nanking Higher Military Court. point, ne nets ofthe Fee ea lenge tet Sue ainsi Sawin emer DG es Omen Maxime Kalaw, Professor Marcial esaanes atin, Yee, Fermnte pau, diet eae Dec. 11 being the fourth anaivereary of Communist uprisings at, Centon, silent martial law was enforced in Chinese-controlled ter~ ritory throughout the day. "Armed members ofthe Greater' Shanghai Public Safely Durey, working in ce-operation. with the merchant. volunteers, -patrolled the entire [Chinese City and Chapel area with fixed bayonets,
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