To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Cuwg. Dany News"
Sm,—One factor which, whether strong enough or not to affeds, the. duration or magnitude of the present" hostilities must have an important, if not decisive, influence on the methods of gradual wearing must sometimes be employed.
Some of your readers may sinic Too, it may be remembered, the policy of friendly relations: was pursued by' he Chinese Government years before our serious.clash- with- Japan in 1981.
"That deplorable mishap et the forer Jo. and at the Palace and /Hitels cannot be placed into the' same- category as the Japanese bombing of civilians, It is the inten-that makes a world of difference.
hinese, from the Generalissimo and Madame down, have felt the deepest sorrow and horror at that catastrophe and have been prompt: ini expressing them which cannot help but being ring the fgg that nationals have been the main sufferers; To remind: us end the World of it at every opportunity on whith the question of non-comtants is brought up is, you will agree, unkind: and unfair.
To those WAD have lost beloved or otherwise suffered directly from that mishap, me' have nothing but the proof warfare and the gravity of tte itennd!
"sympathy. The resentment unnecessary sufferings of civilians: the relations between the Chinese and the neutrals, particularly the British.
In calling up such a subject for contemplation, I am aware of the pre-Gariousness of the ground I am treading. Slight as it might be, there is the risk that someóne might be they have expressed, precisely became of thg personal element in it, must be respected. It would be indeed desirable if a more concrete form of sympathy could be shown. but there are obvious diffüculties for that.
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