Nanking, Dec. 2.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and other Kuomintang leaders were urged to assume responsibility for the hostilities and resign from their posts immediately in messages dispatched to them on Wednesday by the delegates to the People's Congress here, it iwas disclosed today.
"You allied yourselves with the Communists and started the hostili ties, dragging the country and th people to the verge of destruction, ihe messages said. "Millions of persons are suffering hardships and China's national existence is threaten-
€d.. The enmity of the masses is directed against you.
"You can never sue for peace if You do not join in the war against Communism at once. If you do not make peace China can never, he saved.
"The entire Chinese nation would be happy to sce you apologize for your nation and maintain the national life of China by accepting responsibility and resigning your. post."
The telegrams were sent to Gen. Chiang, President Lin Sen, Mr. Wang Chao-ming, Dr. Sun Fo, Mr. T. V. Soong, Dr. H. H. Kung, Gen. Pai Chung-hsi and Gen. Li Tsung-jen—Domei.
Changsha Destruction Denounced Tokyo, Dec. 2.
Denunciation of the Chiang Kaishek regime for the "scorched eartl tactics at Changsha, capital of Buna province, was contained in a circul: telegram issued jointly by 24 Chinese public organizations on November 253, according to a belated message reaching here today from the. Hankow correspondent of the "Tokyo Nichi-Nichi."
The telegram placed on the Chiang regime the "full responsibility for the tragic deaths of 2,000 civilians the destruction of more than 80,000 houses."
The stand taken by the provincial government and the people of Hunan to defend Changsha and the strategy of the Central armies in reducing Changsha to ashes were "irreconcilable," the telegram said.—Domei.
"Propaganda clearly perceived to be glaring falsehoods is useless for} people do not believe it.
"To be effective propaganda should contain a certain amount of truth and if it can attract the attention of readers it cen be of some use.
"At the same time even propaganda based on falsehoods from beginning io end sometimes will achieve the desired effect, if only temporarily.
"This is more particularly the when the people are so ignorant that they cannot differentiate—betw truth and falsehood and when their country has such meager communication and traffic facilities that the dissemination of truth isa slow and unreliable process.
Chinese "Fabrications"
"Tt also happens that when the people have been reduced to such circumstances as to wish for anything to cling to, even demagogic stories which are beyond belief sometimes, achieve their purpose.
"Chinese propaganda at this time is mede up entirely of demagogic fabrications and concoctions.
"The psychological condition of the Chinese people, who are clutching at straws like a drowning man, as it were, after a series of consecutive defeats suffered by the Chinese troops, forces them to believe all manner of fabrications.
"One of the latest examples of these fabrications is the story that the Japanese forces at Hankow brutally massacred'Chinese stragglers. A pro-Chinese English language daily printed a brazen lie, embellished with fictitiens figures, to, the effect that the Japanese Army Special Service Section, 'Reformed Government' officials and other organizations were sending opium and cocaine to Nanking.
"It is natural thet China should be resorting to such measures because if she did not, she woul be unable to drag the people along tht path of continued resistance.
"The Chinese have broadcast wholly false reports that the Japanese would suffer an economic collapse at any moment and.that the Chinese troops would in the immediate future recapture Tsinan, Canton and even Soochow.
"The Nationalist regime, by banning freedom of speech and by suppressing all those reports which are unfavourable to it, has warped the judgment and discrimination of the Chinese people.
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