After referring to the comments of the "North-China Daily News" and the "Shanghai Evening Post" as respectively representative of British and American opinion on the &ùbject, Mme. Chiang continued:
"This type of massacre is going on throughout the country and is bound to be intensified once the army air force has prepared its Selds somewhere on occupied islands or on a Japanese golf course at Shanghai, "Tell me, is the silence of Western nations in' the face of such mas-sacros, such demolition of homes and dislocation of business, a sign of the triumph of civilization with its humanitarianism, its codes of con-duet, its chivalry and its claims of Christian influence, or is the spectacle of the first-class Powers all standing silently in a row as if so stupefied by Japan that they do not utter a reproach, a fore-runner of, the collapse of international ethics of Christian guidance and conduct and the death-knell of the supposed moral superiority of the Occidental?
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