Admiration fọr Mr. Dunn To the Editor of the "Norts-Cuiya Dairy News"
Sm,—I admire your correspondent, Mr. Eowarp Dunn for his audacity in' signing his real name to a message which is at variance with the generally accepted principles of humanitarianism and for his tenacity in sticking to his erroneous views, but I can hardly say the same thing for his logic. On the contrary, I think he is as illogical as anyone could possibly be.
War has not been declared and Japan is therefore not entitled to the usages (such as bombing of cities) Which might be permissible in a regularly declared war. Japanese contraventions in the premises conviet her at the bar of world opinion, This is a point in law and there is nothing sentimental about it.
War might mean life or death to both participants but not in the present conflict, Is there really anybody besides Mr. Dunn who believes that if Japan should decide to call off the war and withdraw her troops, the Chinese would follow in hot pursuit and engage them in their homeland? Even it-it is indeed a life and death struggle, it does not justify Japan in resorting to illegitimate means. Japan must fight it out like a man in accordance with Queensbury Rules and not hit below the belt, as it were.
Is it logical for any person professing sympathy for the hapless Chinese victims of the Japanese air raids, to at the same time write letters condoning and practically giving moral support to these atrocities from the air?
How logical is a person- who cannot even differentiate between the isolated and accidental bombing on "Bloody Saturday" by Chinese aviators from the deliberated and continued air raiding of Canton and other Chinese cities or fail to see the difference between the bombing of the President Hoover (mistaken for a Japanese troop transport) by the Chinese and the bombing and pot shooting of merchant marine and men-of-war of neutral foreign powers by the Japanese air and naval arms? The casualties inflicted by the errors of some Chinese aviators appear neg-Jigible when compared with the huge number of Chinese civilian dead wrought by the Japanese vultures of the air.
What kind of a logic is it that could doubt the bombing of "Bloody Saturday" was accidental: Even a country detective could have told Mr. Dunn that there was no motive for Chinese aviators killing Chinese, If Mr. Dunn has not quitted under fire, I should like to, ask him point blank "Are you, Sir, by any means, in favour of the continuation of these air. raidings of Canton by the Japanese?"
I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to express my' deep appreciation for the spontaneous and general decry that is being raised throughout the world against these aerial atrocities. These objections are particularly outspoken among British, American and the French people. The joint lefter of the 11 Lord Mayors of British communities has in particular made a profound impression on a vast number of my compatriots.
I also wish to thank the group. of Anglo-American medical practitioners of Canton who did not confine their activities to the reparation of human derelicts shattered by air bombs and have written a letter of protest against the inhuman air ventures of the Japanese, A hope is expressed that their two letters may be reproduced in your "North-China Herald" which enjoys such a wide circulation in the British Isles and in the other parts of the Empire as well as in continental Europe, so that the people abroad may be the better acquainted with the heavy tolls that is daily being exacted in Canton and other well populated Chinese cities.
It is easy enough for people like Mr. Dunn to say nonchalantly these people should evacuate, but where and how are they to find shelter and food with their means of gainful employment taken away and with their worldly goods destroyed or become valueless because of no buyers? Beggars cannot be choosers but what can beggars beg from beggars?
Requiescat in pace! These innocent men, women and children who are daily being crucified before the altar of Japanese god of might.
Herman.
Shanghai, July 26.
Chinese Students: soldiers form "Walls of Human Flesh" against the invaders, and as Dr, Sun Fo has said in London. "They are not afraid to die, for they have nothing to lose but a wretched existence." A careful comparison between the Chinese peasants and the Shanghai Chinese students who formerly announced themselves as "the leaders of the masses" will convince a disinterested person that the former are of more worth to China than the latter.
Several prominent Chinese educators have asked me why America has not given military aid to China. I always counter this question with another: "What are you western-trained leaders doing for China?" It is a hard indictment that Madame Sun Yat-sen recently made of the cowardly male Chinese who rushed to the foreign Settlements for safety, when she said that in every other country in the world men would fight to resist the invader. As much as we love China, many of us foreigners must say frankly that we have but little respect for those who plunged China into this war hoping for and attempting to get foreign intervention, and who then left the Chinese masses to suffer the consequences. These patriots' saved themselves and their property in the foreign concessions, but they have lost something of far greater value than "face."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.