In Shops and Cafes They Talk Of Shanghai War Over the shop counters, over the small cups of tea on the cafe tables of Limehouse-causeway, they discuss the disasters at Shanghai, says "Evening Standard."
Mr, Chang Chu, neat, courteous, a little philosophical, keeps a restaurant in the Causeway:
Mr, Chang Chu, alas, has not had the good fortune to see China since 1915, but he talks determinedly of the war, "The whole heart of China is united in this war," he said, "It may go on for a year, two years, five years, ten years, China will not care.
"The Japanese have come into our country, and they drop bombs on women and children. They are wicked. But they cannot win China.
"see, you come into my shop. If I shut the door, then you cannot get out again. You can telephone to your friends, but they are a long way off. I call my friends from close by with a single shout, "It is the same in China. The Japanese land and people get excited. But we, we do not get excited. Let them come in, we say, let them come in. Then one day we shut the door. They are all killed.
1 wander further down the Causeway, where Mr. Ah Tack keeps a lodging house for Chinese seamen.
Mr. Ah Tack is the most cheerful, smiling polite man one could imagine, His English is not extensive, and where it fails him, he, simply smiles.
"The Japanese have come into our country," he said, "and that is not right, We are a peaceable people, but now we must fight, If the war goes on one year, two years, even ten years, China will fight it, and then it will all be over.
"We will have all our country back again, even Manchuria. This time it must be decided,"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.