The writer gives Agures of the casualties in China during the pa eighteen months, which he says, "include the best part of " million' men, {killed and disabled while fighting. and tons of thousands of civilians butchered. some with bombs and some in cold blood,"
He adds that 30,000,000 are destitute and homeless, of whom "a portion have lready' died from starvation and pestilence."
The correspondent says that the purpose of his letter Is "to point out how apparently inconsistent sometimes are the standards of international morality.
echnieally, the Germens are right when they say that their savage oppression of the Jews is none of our business, "Technically, on the other hand, the appalling plight of the Chinese is our business, "the British Government being bound by the League Resolution of February 2, 1938, to consider how far it can extend eid to China."
The writer says that he finds the world's conscience a puzzling organism. He aske if it regards 100 dead or destitute Chinese as equivalent to one persecuted Jew, "or is it simply. that the Jews are nor at hand, while the Chinese are a very long way away, and yellow at that.'—Reuter,
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