Effect of Growing Appetite To the Editor of the "NortH-Crina Dary News"
Sim—It has almost become a habit of mine to read your paper daily. During the last three weeks I have paid special attention to your editorigls on the North China situation. But I must say that T have felt quite disappointed with some of them, and sometimes I regretted I should have ever wasted my time in reading such things at all. As I read those, edito ials I had the feeling that their writer appeared not unlike the bat trying court the favour of both parties. as the Chinese would say, or like a spectator bestriding a wall without noticing whet is actually going on on oth sides down below. The writer himself might think that he was just trying to be impartial or fair-minded. But in reality he was encouraging the aggressors to accomplish: their aims. He urged China to face reality. And what he meant by this is that China should not resist Japan's axgression and should accept the fait accontpli i.e., yield to the Japanese pressure znd let them have North China, But does our writer realize that if Japan is, allowed to have North China the rest of the country -will Be. in immediate. danger?. Dogs he iso realize that if China becomes the victim of Japan, the British Empire will become the next victim? Would he then urge the British not to resist when the Japanese militarists have taken possession of Hongkong and Singapore or Australia?
The English are said to have a sense of fait play. That is an.admirable virtue. But I am afraid that virtue is not possessed by the, writer of those editorials in the "North~ China Daily News."
One must be a moral coward or cold-blooded animal indeed if he has witnessed. q murder committed but has not the courage or is hesitating to denounce the murderer. The world. is now witnessing the greatest international murder being committed by the Japanese' militarists, but many of those who are in a position " to make protest against them dare not do so or do-it only half-heartedly. What a world we are living in! And yet we are all praying for peace, but can peace be obtained without paying some kind of a price for it?
C.F, Lune.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.