'Already, we see' the beacon ahead. [The "solidarity of the nation wil carry us through the crisis, We-shall Trave to suffer but. suffer we will cheerfully to make China safe against Aggression arid. to make the world safe for humanity.
So China is not Aghting for our country alone, Lord. Cranborne of]. Great Britain pointed out to the League members and rightly so, that the Japanese aerial activity in China was a' menace to the whole world, He Altingly asked, "If this tendency to continue and to be intensified, can civilization itself survive?" Mr. Cordell Hull, the United States [Secretary of State, also declared, "The 'American Government, as has' beea set forth in its note to Tokyo on [September 22, holds the view that Jany general bombing of ail extensive tarea wherein resides a large populace fengayed In peaceful pursuits. Is. unwarranted" and. contrary to" the principles and taws of "humanity." M, Yvon Delbos, the French delegate, Jeven said that silence would be a lcompliclty to the crime. "Civilization Itself, he added, would be placed in [danger, if the conscience of the world did not raise its voice at this time.
We agree with the best friends of China that China's salvation lies. the hands of the Chinese people. But when the" welfare of the" whole civilized world is at stake, Is it too much for ust to ask that the people other nations should see the danger of "sitting in splendid isolation," to quote our new friend from old England?
Millions of yen have been spent by the Tokyo Government for propaganda at home and abroad, especial ly. abroad. Books have been published, miseries have been sent {o foreign countries and cables have boon kept hot transmitting pro pagandist matters to Europe. America fand all parts of the world to prepare the mind of all people for the Jor planned domination of China, But been the result? Acts speak louder than words. And when words take the form of propaganda, they fare apt to fall on dear ears, Japan has repeatedly denied that Japanese aeroplanes have bombed un> fortified cities or dropped bombs amorly the civilian population oF rined people foin about callings. She even, jos that her submarine ruthlessly eked a Chinese fishing fleet leav-the helpless Mshermen drifting, without food far out in the sea, Th verid is told that the Imperial Japai wwe army, navy and alr force are i teapable of such inhuman acts. The Testimonies "of "independent foreign eye-witnesses are falsely branded by Japanese as "Chinese propaganda." But the world is not deceived. True public opinion must have its way.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.