The writer gives figures of the fensuatties-in China during the past eighteen months, which he says, clude the best part of million men, killed and disabled While fighting, and tens of thousands of civilians butchered, some with bombs and some in cold blod."
He adds that 30;000:000 are destitute and homeless, of whom "a portion have <lready' died from starvation and pestilence."
The correspondent "says that the purpose of his letter is "to point out how apparently inconsistent sometimes are the standards of international morality.
"Technically, the Germ2ns are right when they: say that their savage oppression of the Jews is none of our business. A "Technically. on the other hand. the appalling plight of the Chinese is our business, the -British Government being bound by the League Resolution of February 2, 1938. to consider how far it can extend 2id te China."
The writer says that he. finds the world's conscience a puzzling organism. He asks if it regards 100 dead or destitute Chinese as equivalent to one persecuted Jew, "or is it simply at the Jews are-ne-r at hand; while e Chinese are a very fong way away, and yellow at that."—Reuter.
Hongkong, Nov. 25.
Japanese -troops today occupied Shumchun on the Canton-Kowloon railroad, 20 miles from Kowloon, after a sharp but brief engagement with Chinese irregulars Observers said that the city was a pitiful sight—as refugees, panic-stricken by the approach of the-Japanese troops, jumped into the river.—Uniited Press.
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