Another shortcoming in popular government, at least on the Conservative side, is brought out by Mr. Ian Harvey, candidate for Don Valley in a report (nominally private, but widely published) on the enormous cost of becoming a Conservative M.P. Mr. Harvey says that candidates for a constituency, on applying for adoption by the Party, may be divided into three classes:—
Those willing to pay all election expenses (anything up to £1,200) and Subscribe up to £1,000 a year to the loca] association. Certain to be At his request, the Americans issued the following statement:
General—has kindly visited us several times and has most courteously inquired into the matter of the machinegun raking of some of our hospital buildings on November 5 and the killing of a patient. He maintains that this firing Could not have been purposely almed at the hospital, but that the hospital was hit by accident, and he has expressed regret. We cept his state-Ment, though we must say the shooting was very inaccurate. As far as we are Concerned we consider the incident closed We desire to t e this occasion to express our sine appreciation of the most evident core taken by the Japanese army and specially by the aviators on November 21 and 22, when Sutsien was taken. Neither our compound outside the city, where there were several hundred refugees, nor our compound inside the city was damaged, and not a single one of the refugees or other inmates of our places was hurt at all. We feel sure this could not have been without very special care by those in charge of operations, and we express On December 2, at 1030 pin. Chinese soldiers launched a counter attack on Sutsien city. Fighting continued intermittently until 3.80 o'clock the following afternoon, with skirmishes during the hight Many fires were raging, in various parts of the city. Chinese civilians who saw the attacking force of infantry estimated it at from 200 to 500. men.
The outer city wall is built of mud and surrounded by a deep moat. The Chinese climbed over this mud wall, but failed to enter the inner city wall of brick. After fierce fighting in the streets, the Chinese were driven out of the city before morning; but they stayed in a large farmhouse, only a few dozen feet from the city wall, until after dark the next night, when they withdrew. Total casualties are unknown, although some Japanese motor trucks were burned.
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