Another brief raid was made on the capital this afternoon, by Japanese planes which appeared at 245 behind heavy clouds. The only indication of the whereabouts of th visitors were puffs of smoke from bursting shells and anti-aircraft fire.
Three Japanese bombers eventually emerged, circling towards the south and dropping bombs from a great height, again aiming at the aerodrome outside Kwanghuamen-
"Shall we then resort to the other alternative of walling ourselves in and refusing to take part in a warring world, if other nations choose to fight and wreck their civilizations in suicidal strife? Shall we withdraw in an effort at least to save our own? The difficulty is that thorough-going isolation is not humanly possible. Great walls are outlived survivals of an earlier civilization. They are futile. To-day modern industrial nations cannot ili fact cut themselves off from commercial intercourse with the rest of the world and mam-tain adequate standard of living. The damming up of unsalable surpluses: and. the ruinous cost of domestically. producing goods which the nation is economically unfitted to produce are bound to drive down living standards to untenable and provocative levels.
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