From a statement issued by the S.M.C.-
"Any suggestion of shortage is, the entirely "misleading and probably" ma profiteering. purposes."
Come on lightning! weeks ago!
We told you that ten Somewhat Unkind yes erations Japanese bombers. the" Soochow This continual "picking" on the Japanese must really stop. As In Parenthesis has already pointed out, if the International Settlement will Rot sincerely ce-operate with the Japanese authorities and keep the settlement from under the Japanese planes, complaints of this nature! fare bound to continue, We Will Now Carol Ranten in the evening, Chinese batteries in Cchagel opened up, on the Japanese tines her Ing. the offensive.
Listen to the Chinese cannon, Heralding a new attack. Hear machine-guns gaily singing Their refrain, of smack, smack, smack. Now they're starting in Chapet Fighting at the close of day Listen to the cannon's roar As they've never roared before!
This harmonious overture, Prelude fo another fight Making Chapet not s0 happy rough the tong autumnal night—Heralding fs what they're doing Unlike angels are they singing Devilish voices of the night Giving us another fright!
The Blind Eye Tue Foreign OMice spokesman in Tokyo, com menting on the Hongkong enquiry Into the sinking of Ashing boats by the Japanese Navy is reported to have sal selt styled Chi Ashermen of the junks attacked" hive 1 that the junks were quipped with one to four old-style cannon.
"we have never heard of a ishing boat with such armaments, 'The 'Chinese testimony, therefore, must' be taken' as a contetsion that the allegedly' attacked junks' were pirate junks Which infest the neighbourhood of Bias Tay."
That the spokesman has not heard of Ashing junks plying out of Hongkong carrying small cannon to defend themselves against the China coast pirates is deeply to be regretted, but the Argument he seeks to develop from his lack of knowledge is, just the same, one of those fruity. old birds known as a tion sequitur, The Apostle of Love Anwor Chao Kung—Treb, the Line, to you—has founded the League of Truth, which says is "for TRUTH, JUSTICE, KINDNESS" and "against LIES, INJUSTICE, HATRED" and when he is not singing a soothing sutra to himself, or murmuring a mournful mant, he Wwrlles beautiful pamphlets. No 3 is Just off the press, and is another example of the truth, Kindness and justice which the Treb. has dis" covered after a meteoric career through various! creeds, The following is part of his most re-feet Tucubration dear Generalissimo, you are once more the vietion of deceitful slogans, dinned into your ears by interested foreign nations. "War Is Tel Sfaidan'Anieriean General. Don't you itary man uow this?" War ts Hell and it only hypocritical Great Britain and their factories (their newspapers). who. pretend. that War can be "humanized." Tam against all wars, precisely because It fs hell' for humanity. But Great Britain ts not against war and Wats, they Hlory Ju it." Even now while they denounces leged Japsnese "atrocities," they are" preparing similar or greater atrocities for the next. war!"
Now, now, now, Treb! You may have all sorts of grievances against the British, but do you think you are doing any good by massacring the English grammar?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.