Hongkong, June 5.
BPUTERLY attacking Japanese bombings of civilian areas of Canton which have resulted in more than 5,000 casualties in the past week, the British-owned "South China Morning Post" today said the bombings were a "confession of weakness....mak~ ing the world question Japanese claims to civilization."
Further protests against Japanese bombing of civilian areas would appear futile, the paper said, but nevertheless it is necessary publicly to condemn these barbarous Japanese attacks on Canton because silence might be mistaken as acceptance of these outrages and encourage further Japanese wantones. Japanese reports of Canton bombings have been carefully confined to the bombing of military objectives, but Saturday's raid renders Japa~ nese accounts questionable.
"The Japanese apparently consider paper concludes, that the offending the power stations and administra~ governments may be "moved t0 tive buildings as military objectives, fRodoration by growing evidence that From this point of view virtually naiseriminate sinughter of civilians Jopen towns exist anywhere in China, inva useless ay it iz barbarous.
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