The Archive · 1937

SESQUI - CENTENARY IN AUSTRALIA

Sydney Prepares for Huge Celebration differs from that of the surfer, to whom the shark is ever a lurking menace, The Shark Advisory Committee, which has been urging preventive action upon the Government, feels that "it would be particularly tragic if there were a shark attack while the interest of the world was focussed upon us during the anniversary celebrations."

Nanchang, Nov. 8.

"Japan is invading China, wantonly bombing our cities in the- interior, indiscriminately destroying our cultural and educational institutions, and cruelly massacring our innocent civilians everywhere in China. Her acts of invasion are truly barbarous to the extreme! Only international sanctions can suppress Japan's bar-parity. We are specially sending you this telegram requesting you to uphold justice."

This is a free translation of the telegram cabled to the Nine Power Conference in care of Ambassador Wellington Koo at Brussels, on October 25, by the Sino-foreign Christian body of the Nanchang Municipality, as a result of the resolutions reached at a special meeting convened for the express purpose of expressing indignation and anxiety over the Japanese aggression.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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