The Oxford "Group 412) coastwise navigation la to pass under Japanese control, while it is propagod to establish a tug and lighter business in Shanghai as well as warehousing. In connection with these evelopments it has not yet been decided whether they shall be carried out by separate companies, or whether national policy shipping corporation shall take charge of the work. This, programme necessitated by the-recognition of the fact that under the peace contemplated by the Japanese there will probably be no question vf fan indemnity. China would be unable to pay one unless in. control of her own industries. 420 and, on the face of it, it is only by the creation of such monopolies that Japan hopes to reap. return for the hugo sums of. money which she is laying out in China, Mga Kathleen Hogan v. Albert George ug. Court for:
for: Find ce Ses Gears: Catavedoring Geese Ca % Sharahal Mee gs Chauiletr Contes to Murder US.Al Senda Note to Tole Grech "Troop Wlihdeavals with the, hostit Chungking's Dug-Outs With the. hostilities extending deeper in into china and: Japanese aeroplanes ranging wide Yana wider add Chungking spears te be oe. 124] garding' the question of protection against air Faids in a very sensible and practical manner. HE) Serene genoa ro ib huge life which the city at the end of the Gorges is bu! 81) Chinese engineers have driven tunnels ints os the rock" and it is stated. that dug-out {$3 commodation for" 60,000 people has been pro-23] vided. Paraphrasing Kipling "you can hide {88 your caves. you can hide in Your graves bul Ghina taslee Bring Commons Queries 42t) Sou" cant get away from the bomber the Chic japan Faces, Economic hose authorities have devised a very effective their air-raids have been directed. against military objectives, tree them from the blame arising from the deaths of ¢o many civilians. in Canton and elsewhere. It is readily conceded that by reason of its situation, and the part it is playing in the defence of China against Japenese invasion, Canton is a legitimate target for the attention of Japanese bombers, but it is. still Fequired, in the interests of humanity, that the activities of the raiders" should be' directed Jagainst the military objectives with which Canton abounds. ither the Japanese raiders have been forced by Cantonese anti-aircraft artillery to fly at such a height that precision Is impossible—and there is nothing in the reports up 10 the present to show that Chinese. anti-aircraft defence has ever reached such excellence—or the raiding is being carried out without the slightest Fegard for the defenceless civilian. It can hardly bbe believed that either the Spanish Nationalist oF the: Japanese high commands can for one moment stil! believe in the psychological effect of the bombing of open cities as a means to) achieving victory, for if anyone should know that such means are not. fraught. with the Possibilities of success it should be the Spanish Nationalist high command, It is increasingly clear that this defiance of world opinion on the art of the Spanish Nationaliste arises from the desperation of frustration, being denied that early vielory which it was thought a successful drive to the Mediterranean coast would give them. Tt would at this juncture be rash to think that a similar inspiration is behind these repeated bombings of Canton, but the opinion is rapidly Growing that the failure of the Japanese armies fo gain that quick success, which was so glibly Kidnapped Boy Phont nite Four Witos—"india and' China Hostilities "America and Britain Nature "Notes zx) Tu Parenthests hina's Sites for" Sune Book Pacy 3 system of protection for there are limits to penetrative powers of the aerial bomb, and by. utilizing. this system of natural cover they will spare the civil populace of much of the horrors of attack as experienced by mally cities, and especially Canton which has suftgred so terribly the last few days. When the unhappy "incident" is over. perhaps the Chungking dugouts may vie with the catacombs of Rome, oF the London Underground Railways. in historical fame as the resort of the harassed civilian in times of stress. The mighty Yangtze, finding forecast at the commencement of hostilities, is assisting exasperation to defeat inherent good sense, Japan's War Minister As foreshadowed, Lieutenant-General Seishiro Itakagi has been appointed Japanese Minister of War in succession to General Gen Sugiyama and Japan's new policy aiming at a speedy end of the Sino-Japanese hostilities and the "quickest possible overthrow of the Chiang Kai-shek
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