The local government has also moved into the country, so there is little chance of getting them a second time. The most unfortunate strack of all occurred in the afternoon when Juian was visited and the launch ferry came in for attack by machinegun, The boat contained as usual civilian countrymen from whose death or injury nothing was to be gained; and yet two were killed and two injured.
The raid cannot be said to have been a large one. Moreover, within the city, there was no indiscriminate bombing. Yet one wonders about the ethics of bombing an inoffensive, unarmed country town where civilians are certain to be injured and where the damage created can cause no iota of difference to the course of the war. Now, as usually happens, the well-to-do who have some influence in affairs will leave the city, or those who cannot leave will en-conce themselves beneath concrete Those who remain to be terrorized will be the poor classes whose opin-fon about the war and the government is not asked. It is perfectly useless in China to try and influence the authorities by attacking the lower orders, Since the bombing there has been a big evacuation, but the trade of the city does not seem to have been arrested. The foreign population still remains, pending further developments,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.