A further incident in the present guerilla warfare is reported from a small town south-west of Linfeng which was held for a time by a Japanese garrison after the occupation in March li Later the cit; gates were surreptitiously opened to the Chinese troops and the little gar-risen was completely wiped out. Perhaps in revenge for this disaster a fresh attack was launched on the town a few days ago. Most of the defending troops withdrew at the approach of trouble. A few of them were killed, so were scores of civilians who were deliberately mown down by machine guns as they attempted to flee out of the city gates.
One wonders how much longer this cruel and useless strife is to continue, cruel—in that so many non-combatants are losing life, property or honour; and useless, in that there is no sign of the defenders yielding, or of the invaders being able to make effective use of the limited shelter of territory that they hold."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.