To the Editor of the "Non-Cunen Daruy News"
Sin If the Chinese build highways, they pave the way for the automo: biles Of the rich and the tanks of the invaders; if they bulld none,. they fare backward, unit for the modera family of nations. If they build up 'a town, they are squandering money; they don't build, they are hopelessly'" out-of-date." If" they move troops towards dangerous zones, they' fare threatening foreign interests: they don't, they are cowards. If they' want to abolish foreign privileges extorted at the point of the bayonet), they menace lawful interests; if they! don', they are supine and unpatriotic. I they. defend their' sell, they are! Dellicose; if they don't, they are! Walters. If they want to get rid of foreign interference in their country, they are provocative; if they don't they are "wish-washy, devoid spirit. If they commit mistakes, they fare. stupid; it they' don't, they are! Impossible. If. they rally around their leader, they make a mistake (as they are. stupid because' they commit a mistake, they are stupid because they rally around their leader, QED).
It they ask "for assistance from England and France, they are running dogs of the capitalists. If they appeal fo the USSR. they are fondish Bolshevists, threatening to destroy this pleasant Fascio-Samurai-Nazi world. If they don't appeal, wel, they are just silly children who know nothing about the realities of the! international diplomatic game and therefore must be placed under tute-Tage.
Everything is fair in love and wat this being a war for the sake of love, everything a doubly fair. Jor Toc Toque cannot conceive of the idea "that the Japanese are so ruthless, to ut it mildly, as to bomb places in iseriminately and to purposely mas-sacro civilians unless they had a good reason for doing it" And what, may ask, is a good reason for indiserimnate' bombing and purposeful mas-sacro of civilians?
Mystery of mysteries! What to me is most incomprehensible is—Jor Toc Shanghai, June 16, PS—I would like to learn a bit more about. the influence of the "influential Chinese" which the.
'Japanese got with "comparative ease." (Jor Toc Toque is not, by any chance, thinking of the' trembling gentlemen hiding behind "Japanese skirts—pardon me, sentries—in the New Asia Hotel?), 'A Chinese Reply To the Editor of the Nomi-Ciixa Dany News Sim am genuinely distressed by the letter of Jor Toc Toque and wonder that anybody professing to be neutral third party can honestly. think like he does. However 1 tobe comfort in noting that the views of the preponderant majority of the for~ eign community, including that of our excellent journal, are of an en-Usely different tenor, The said correspondent has admitted "that he found Chinese incomprehensible. This remark 1 frank admission that he docs not heve quite a clear understanding of things Chinese and consequently 1 think his views are based on a mise conception and would suggest that it taken in that light.
Sald correspondent blamed the Chinese Government for its disability to amass sufficient quantity of military paraphernalia 10 meet Japanese forees of arms on even terms and jus-fes the Japanese military for their wasion of China on account of their:
inning streak. In homely, language he believes in the idea that if the:
Gther fellow can lick you, he has a perfect legal right to do it and even to annex anything belonging to you that catches his fancy. Even the Japanese themselves do not, epenly Subscribe to this dangerous Siiception which is contrary to the accept ed. doctrine son which our social Structure is built upon, for as an eyewash the Japenese have resorted!
the creation of puppet organizations in Changehua Peiping and Nanking, instead of outright annexa-ton of seized territories.
"The fact that some Chinese have China ten or "joined these organizations does not mean that stich institutions are}
Popular or that there is no cohesion amongst the Chinese people. There no nation or people that is without fis due quota of renegades. Even some men of letters' are not beyond, writing to further an obviously unworthy cause out of monetary con siderations. The Chinese traitors be-_ trayed their country because it pays them to do so and not because they entertain any love for the several puppet regimes or for the Japanese manipulators behind such outfits.
'As to his remarks against the new life movement and kindred efforts as Chinese hypocrisies, I presume he finds the Japanese' profession that they are "bombing and maiming Chinese civilians out of love as more sincere. Iam sorry that such sincere friendship is not accorded to his country, where it would be appre-clated, instead of being extended to my unappreciative country.
Ts he sincere in the belief that the 19th Route Army was transferred 0 Shanghai area with the idea to seize the foreign-controlled areas or as} a coercive in the abolition of extrality? If such was indeed the case then the several foreign commands have indeed been very ungallant as to leave the onerous task of the champion of foreign rights tothe Jepanese forces exclusively. If a Teutine transfer of Chinese garrison fon Chinese soil constitutes a threat to the adjacent foreign-controlled fares, how much greater threat to China is the frequent augmentation of Japanese forces in Hongkew and Kisngwan, not to mention of those In North China, 'Are the Japanese such poor propagandists? Mr. K. Kawakami and his colleagues are on a parity with the best of their counterparts in any other country. 'The trouble is, they have always to fight a prima' facie case. No matter how clever' one' may be, one cannot foo! all of the people all of the time.
'And our party believes in that] antiquated slogan' "All is fair in love and war." We know now how catalogue him. This idea is no longer tolerated by the better class of people nowadays. The people of today en. terrain a high regard for ethical practice in their love affairs, in their Dusines dealings os wil ex in their murders. There Is a certain ws Gi fair play and. justice which must be observed no matter how important the objective may be, when ther it is a struggle over the destiny, of an empire or over a realm of the heart, That objective must not be attained by dis honourable moans.
Tam afraid the gentleman has allowed his personal enmity against General Chiang to blind his sense of Justice, and turn apologist for Japan. His letter amounts to an applause for Japanese aerial bombing of Canton and other atrocities, He is indeed a rare bird to be so devoid of compassion as to encourage the Japanese continue and intensify their bombing and murder of innocent Chinese who have not even given him ugly look. Lo, blood of Chinese noncombatants are on his hands.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.