Pulpits Join Denounciations of Bombings: Rising Indignation Voiced London, Sept. 27.
The newspapers here widely respect the rising disgust at: the indiscriminate bombings of Chinese cities by the Japanese. Many" pulpits yester-say also. joined in denouncing Japan's ruthlessness.
The National Peace Council has seat a letter to the Japanese Ambassador. Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, exp sing "intense horror and dismay" at the Japanese bombings. The letter Was signed by the Bishop of Bir-bingham, the Master of Balliol, and many' influential intellectual people, Signs of a demand for a boycott Japanese goods begin. visible in several directions, Sir Francis Acland, former Foreign Under-Secretary, in a letter to "The Times," says that the "bombing of Canton must and. can be Stopped. More than three-quarters of Japan's total trade is with countries under the flags of the Netherlands,, the United States and the British Empire, The heads of these countries are men of high civilization, "humane and merciful, They could act together and at once stop Japan's trade within a week. That would stop the massacres, Will they not do itr"
The Bishop of Bristol has also written a letter to "The Times" with the same plea Tam voicing." he adds, "what many Englishmen are feeling."
The "News-Chronicle," reporting the formation of a private organization to boycott Japanese goods, sets Out a list of the chief commodities imported from Japan, The value of them in 1935 was over £8,150,000, The newspaper urges its readers ily to ascertain the country of in before purchasing goods, "The managing director of a chain of milk bars in London, in a letter to the "Manchester Guardian," states, Today T was about to. purchase 100,000,000 straws at the most favourable price, I thought of the barbaric bombardment of Canton and tore up tha, contract."
The "Manchester Guardian," in an editorial, quotes the Hague aerial war rules of 1933, showing that they are diametrically opposite to what i claimed by the "Japanese naval attache In Shanghai." They expressly forbid bombing of military" points where non-combatant residents are intermingled, The six greatest Powers in the world, doctores the journal, have now separately protested to Japan against the indiscriminate bombing of noncombatants in Chinese cities. "It is Joined with other countries wishing to do so to make more solemn, formal and serious protest against this inexcusable mas-but to all those. Japanese who still honour the chivalrous traditions of the Samurai.
'The tragedy of the "wholesale slaughter." It continues, Is enhanced, incidentally, by the' innumerable wounded, and, in this connection, it Is sincerely to be hoped that sym-Dathisers in this country will afforded an opportunity, before many sare over, of sending medical assistance through some. recognized channel to these innocent sufferers, Japan, it seems, "The Times" declares, is bent on demoralizing China by methods which other nations have not hesitated to condemn.and which fare indeed arousing public opinion, particularly in this "country and in Americe, to a degree which Japan muy Well have cause to regret.
"Her resort to tactics of barbarism," it asserts, is @ symptom of her patience, if not of her alarm, and, by making that resort, she has con-Jured up a menace ultimately greater than that represented by the elusive and indestructible Chinese soldier.
She is earning, "The Times" adds, the unqualified condemnation of the world, on which—whether she is at peace, at war or making good gains:
war—she vitally and Ineseapably depends.—Reuter,
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