"Japan's one: course is to, beat China to her knees so that she may no Longer have the spirit to fight."
Care should be taken to see that there are still enough Chinese left alive-to do the kneeling.—especially civilians, A Warning Combatants should be warned against cutting the cables too frequently, apart from the fact that the special ' correspondents cannot do their jobs adequately, the two commands should remember that they cannot expect to make the front pages of all the world's newspapers if they keep on playing the giddy goat like that.
Real Suffering "Japan, Rear-Admital Shimomura declared, wishes only to subdue the anti-Japanese elements, and had desire of carrying on a war with China."
China may rest assured that it it more in sorrow than in anger that Japan has been obliged to adopt the course she has. Wachrymatory exhibitions on the part of the coe arillus vulgaris is mentioned by Maundev:—"Thes serpentes slon men and thei eton hem wepynge."
"There's Twenty-Thousand Cornishmen," etc.
The spokesman of the Foreig Office, in Nanking, emphatically de {es the report that Chinese troops will forcibly occupy the International Settlement in the course of their operations against the Japanese"
I Parentuesis has discovered during a pleasant afternoon trip round the perimeter some the of reasons why this statement be untesetvedly accepted.
When This Unpleasant War Is Over Old Timer in the correspondence columns yesterday writing about the dud bomb which fell at No. 30 Szechuen Road says:—
"The fragments recovered I understand comr about 90 per cent.
of the total and I beg 10 sugge that the bomb be reconstructed and preserved by the S.M.C. in some museum or other as an' historical piece."
Reading this a lump rose*in In PARENTHESIS's throat, as he pictured the reconstructed dud reposing in a museum. surrounded by photographs of all the people it did not harm. We could start off with all the Council employees, posed after that famous if sickly picture "The Soul's Awakening" flanked by serried rows ratepayers with expressions like those of the early Christian martyrs. That, of course, will come naturally when they find out how much this little spree is going to cost them. But Old Timer, if you think a dud bomb has any historical value, you should cut it out, kid: or take more water with it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.