The maddening accusation of the English public opinion on the sinking lof s, Kao-Sheng by Captain, Togo—later Admiral of the Fleet andthe Mere of the battle of Tsushima—had been quenched by a scholarly reason-Ing. of Professor Laurence, This was the case when the JJapanese war was on the verge of Joutbreak. Some day another Laurence Will appear and stamp that what we Jare doing now is just and correct.
Shanghai, June 9.
Bombing Lingnam University To the Editor of the "Nowti-Ciua Day News"
Si—During the last few days there' has been quite a lot of utter~ ance on the part of Japanese spokesmen and editors, attempting to justify the indiscriminate bombings of Canton by the Japanese air forces which resulted in the appalling loss of civil-fan lives, T should like to ask these Japanese spokesmen and newspaper. editors what justifeations do they have for the three bombs dropped by their compatriots on the Lingnam Univers ity Campus, the property of American nationals.
Is the University one of the legit mate targets? Or is the University very close to any of the military objective which the Japanese are trying to destroy? Anyone who has been to Canton will probably know that Lingnam is situated on the northeastern part of Honam Island. The plot where the University is located fy separated from the city proper by the Pearl River which at that particular stretch is more than halt a mile wide. The institution is quite two or three miles from any of the Government buildings. The University itself occupies an area of four or five hundred mow.
Will the Japanese spokesmen and newspaper editors brand the story as "mendacious propaganda spread the Chinese?" During the time of the ebbing, there were thirty-two Americans, three Britons and. one German in the University Campus and I believe they will be able to say that the report is by no means "groundless concoction."
Perhaps. the Japanese editors still gained a new lustre" by the bombing of the Lingnam University, For= tunately there were no American casualties, otherwise "astonished the accurate bombing by Japanese aircraft" the "obstinate" American Government be "erying for will merey."
From the bombings of the Lingnam University which is one of the foremost educational institutions nurtured to maturity by American educa tors and others, I can only come (0 two conclusions: either those man-hing the bombing planes were miser= ably poor in marksmanship, of they were deliberately trying to destroy cultural institutions whether run by Chinese or foreigners, Shanghai, June 10.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.