Paris, July 23.
Several speakers voiced their condemnation of aerial bombardments of civilians in the course of this afternoon's meeting of the International Conference Against Bombardments of Open Cities. This session is presided over by Senor Martinez Barrio, president of the Spanish Cortes, During this afternoon's sitting, Mr. Li Vu-ing, president of the National Academy in Peiping, gave an expose of the fight carried on by the Chinese people and expressed their firm resolution to muster all forces to resist foreign invasion, as Spain is also doing toda; Miss Edith Sumerskill, British Labour delegate only recently arrived from Barcelona, then took the floor and gave a description of the tragic scenes she had witnessed while in Spain. "In one hospital in Barcelona, I saw 1,500 people, all civilians, injured during air raids carried out by Rebel craft."
M. Jacques Duclos, Communist, one of the vice-presidents of the French Chamber of Deputies, was next to speak. He advocated efficient measures to put to an end massacres of civilian populations, "The names of Guernica, Granollers and Canton will always remain in our memories as names symbolising monstrous crimes permitted by Fascism in Spain and China," he stated dramatically, Theodore Dreiser, famous American writer, affirmed that the American people are solidly in support of all action against the barbarism that is war.
Tomorrow, the last day of the session, will be devoted in the morning to the works of the various committees. Then, in the afternoon, the closing ceremonies will take place.—Havas,
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