Canton Air-raids:
A Neutral Point of View To the Editor of the "Nonti-Cinia Dany News"
'Sinj—-1 wonder what is all the excitement and world wide propaganda fever the Canton bombings, In these {roubled times nobody should loose is common sense and: justice, which however seems Jacking in' many otherwise clear trid cool headed people.
Most of them seem to forget thst there is war with all Its norribie consequences.and that actually Canton is.a fortified city, and besides the gate-way of the "ife-line" of China, the Canton-Hankow Ry. by which China gets all her supplies of guns T actually wonder why up till now the Japanese did not take, or cut off, or destroy this most important railway terminus, as, without doubt, any Western power would have done long-ago.
People living in fortified zones such og Canton are always in the greatest danger during a war. It is a pity for the poor Cantonese population that this has not been realized earlier, and the blame should partly go to the Chinese Government.
In. this connection nobody should forget the far more merciless and more cruel methods set in force during the World War by Great Britain fand_her allies, the hunger-blockade of Germany, by which about two millions of innocent civilian people were slowly doomed to starvation. Mothers saw their children crying for milk and bread in this most horible hunger blockade which history has ever seen, with the world standing by and doing nothing.
Further I beg to point out, that. America could have stopped this war long ago. 'There has never been 1 more profitable business in scrap iron US. than during the last year. Even' the formerly so proud s. Hoover has been sold to the Japanese for more bombs for the Chinese. Every bomb dropping by incident on poor innocent and peace-loving Chi-hose and occasionally on an American owned University or American Mise sion should bear a label "Made from American Serap Iron" to arouse wide American protests against certain Americans, amassing fortunes in the scrap Iron business, but otherwise caring for nothing a9 occasionally joining the crowd. erying over Japanese criminal bombing "Anybody in these very troublesome times should have common sense, for which Britons always were praised and justice and a little less hypocrisy, Shanghai, June 13.
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