Foreign Property be hoped that the Chinese troops who have been campaigning {round Shanghai will not spoil. their good record with regard to foreign [property now that they have withdrawn. some distance away from this metropolis. The mews from Quinsan and from Chanyshu con-{corning the occupation of the property belonging to the American [Church "Mission is not, however, too encouraging. From the brief infor-motion available, it appears that and grain stores. In the menacing shade of undermined walls which threaten to. overwhelm the seekers of undamaged trifles men, Women and children are grubbing about in the ruins. Desolation is so great in some parts, that it is as hard to find the site lof the house as it is to find anything which may have escaped destruction. Here isa condition of things which the charitable heart of Shanghai, already exercised trough other demands, might attempt, to remedy for the wealth of the Chi-miss in Changshu, soldi taken over the [nese villager is barely enough to
Inorth of Soochow and one of the whi thirty-five miles premises carry him from one day to another about This is just one instance in a series Jof many but it indicates the tremen-northerly limits now being held by Jdous. nature of relief work which the Chinese: and also have used the Imust shortly be taken in hand. mission's church in Quinsan as a storehouse, much to the detriment lof. the building. "In times of war Britain's Credit and quasi-war it would be unreason-The British financial situation, able to insist too strongly upon the according to the cables, has impro-propriety or otherwise. of actions vel. The Chancellor of the Exchemay be dictated by military Jquer has nearly another month in necessity. Nevertheless, in view of which to decide on future measures the respect which their care to avoid but on every side, despite the unnecessary damage has engendered ere aged drain on' the private so7—a10 among foreigners, it would be a pity izen's purse and the consequent if the Nineteenth Route Army. or difficulties, there are indications that their allies, dissipate the credit the the budget will Ge balanced and the have earned through their long a1 Janticipated " economies realised gallant resistance to the Japanese, through. the great national effort on which the Ration embarked, Mr. Neville Chamberlain admits that last In Kiangwan [year was a year of danger but the The "back to normal" process in year 1932 he describes as a year Hongkew and other Settlement dis-opportunity and remarks on the tricts is easy of attainment because remarkable change in the national {[the war damage of recent weeks will outlook daring the past six months. anon be mere sourenis of "The country +has been called upon citing time. In Kiangwan, however, to undertake a tremendous task but the situation is'different, What was the will of the people harnessed to once a-thriving country village the solid and well-laid foundation of Inow nothing more that the country's financial and economic lashes. The main road system are achieving the desired ed across the Woorung Railway effect. An encouraging indication to the edze of the village. It ti provided by the remarkable rise disappears in one vast heap of b-/of sterling against other foreign ble, charred wood, piles of bricks, lewis ted conerete steel frames and the litter of houses and shops torn asunder by serial bombs and shells.
few country people have returned the village and spend their time raking among the debris for what-lever odds and ends they can §ind. A baltered table or some agricul tural implements are as valuable as 'a handful of rice or grain spilt when high explosives shattered food shops currencies on the New York market. JOvernight the rate increased to from 3.534 which is abundant idence of how the outside world views the situation.
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