Prof. Brierly Explains Real Issue of Problem Shanghai, Nov. 4.
Discussing the legality ' of aerial bombing Dr. J. L, Brierly, Chichele Professor of "international Law at Oxford University, declared in a [British Broadcasting Corporation talk, last night, that however much com= bat ants in the early stages of " war might strive to observe conventions, the logic of the whole system of war Inevitably Jed to the use of Whatever weapons were available in the most efficient way possible for {he achievement of the purpose of war, Dr, Brierly explained the abortive efforts of the Disarmament Confer= Jence in 1923 to limit the use of the aeroplane in war, In fact there was tone and only one effective way of preventing the distressing results of the aerial bomb and. that was" by abolishing the aeroplane Jontensive weapon, However much it might be desired to limit the bombing to. military" objectives, the proximity of non-combatants. to the {targets rendered it Impossible to avoid involving. them in the attacks.
Terrorism had been banned as a legitimate objective for any arms, yet practice, as the object of war was to bring the enemy to abandon his resistance at the earliest possible moment, it might even be impossible prevent that form of assault if the ogle of the situation were. studied, The imposition of restrictions on the use of the aeroplane was not hocessarily useless. Tt had achieved, something and might achieve more. bhut the real solution was the abolition of war as an instrument of polley. managed to cross before their pon toon bridge was broken up by artillery re. the Japanese details were believed to have been wiped out be= fore reinforcements could reach them, Some activity was noted there during the day, however, as at Kyong Ka Zah, "near Warren Piece, where Japanese had effected a crossing, from Sung Ka Doo. © Hero. it believed that they _advaneed some two to three hundred yards Against severe opposition.
Reports from foreign observers were to the effect that the Japanese had made an advance "towards Monument Road in the Dion Doo area, where their crossing has been the most successful. Chinese reports state, however, that half of the village had been recaptured from the Japanese following the erossing of the 1,000 men, In the Nanziang sector, the Chie nese spokesman stated that Chinese troops, on Tuesday afternoon, had recaptured the village of Tsuyuan, south-east of Nanziang. A furious Japanese attack on Tsouchiche, east of Siao Nanziang, was repulsed, The spokesman also stated that a body of Chinese troops had reached a place about 1,000 metres cast of Kwanglu village.
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