One of these foreign observers is quoted by a contemporary as saying:
To make matters all the more difficult for the offensive. the Chinese seem to be bent upon avoiding a definite and crushing defeat, Just to indicate how correct his views are, it might be pointed out that most armies at war do their utmost to avoid definite and crushing defeats Contradictíon Unified In the course of a report on the fire which destroyed the library of Tung Wen College, a local contemporary says:—"It is not known exactly how the fire started in the noted Japanese college on the western outskirts of Shanghai on Sunday: Chinese de-that shells caused the destructive fire, hile at a conference yesterday (Monday) the Japanese spokesman referred to the blaze as "an unjustified act of incendiarism."
It is a cynical reflection, but nevertheless true, that both versions may be absolutely correct. And now work it out for yourselves Much Teo Severe 1s the correspondent to this journal who. complaining of profiteering by compradores, writes:—
It was hoped that the Civic fathers, having settled the more important question of carefully: balanced programmes of ecclesiastical modality, ior a noise something like that) might devote a little attention to the profiteering of these parasites and compel all storekeepers within their bailiwick to sell the necessities of life at a reasonable profit, failing which, the premises of the offenders be Sealed up.
Oh, but we couldn't do that. We can cons, trol the price of rice for the Chinese but not the price of food for foreigners. After all war is war and someone has to suffer, haven't they?
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