To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Cuwg Dany News"
Sim—The letter appearing in your issue of today from Jor Toc Toqur, dealing with the conduct of certain highly placed Chinese in the present disaster which has befallen this country, will, I am sure, find hearty endorsement from many of your readers. He ha, T venture to suggest, given expression to sentiments which have long been held by unbiassed people who have. followed with disgust the trend of politics in this unhappy and militarily ridden country for so long. While I hate the Japanese militarists, and. strongly condemn many things they have done in this campaign, I agree with your correspondent that China t dz is reaping the harvest of the sied sown in days past, and especially under the present regime. Like Joi Toc Toque, I recall some of the events which took place on tlc advent from Canton of Chiang Ka't-Shek's army in 1927—the murders committed and the ravaging of mis-onery women by his army 1 Nanking; of the high-handed attitude of many of his colleagues in the so-called government of later days. including the Minister for Foreig: Affairs, C. T. Wang, who in hi arrogance denounced the f Powers and announced the int Of his government to abolish extraterritorial rights within a few months; and many high-handed actions of this group which soon became known as the Sung dynasty. Japan undoubtedly has been provoked in many ways, and if today China is suffering, her allegedly "Christian" leaders must find comfort in the thought that—"whatsoever a nation sows, so shall it also reap."
In high places in this country—1 &m not sure the word "high" is correctly used in this connection—there has been far too much humbug and hypocrisy, and under the mask of Christianity and "New Life" movements foreign missionaries have been misled into believing that things were well when common sense should have led them to see that such was not the case. When we hear of appeals broadcast abroad for help for "our dear "Soldiers at the front," and find that the billionaires have not stripped themselves of their wealth to help their distressed brothers and sisters; when we gead of orders being issued to troops at the front "not to yield an inch of ground," and find leaders sheltering under the protection of extra-terri-tonalities, who can wonder that thinking men should express disgust. And when, in face of this, we have a missionary bishop, who has now retired from his labours and gone to a better land describing a certain of the world ana a Shanghai Oxford person as ote of the great. leaders
Grouper, writing in your columns, a few days ago, referring to his wife as one of the great women of the world, one is led to the belief that a certain type of sentimentalism has given place to reason in the minds of people who give little time to think or who are too obsessed with the idea of "bringing to the fold" converts, irrespective of the shroffing they will ultimately get when the deeds that have been done in the flesh and the fortunes that have been amassed at the expense of others are examined.
Yours for further criticism,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.