To the Editor of the "Normi-Cuixa Dany News"
Sm—Now that a great part of the best Nazi troops and equipment are at grips, in a mortal battle, with a Jgreat part of the best forces of the JAllies, it would, it seems to me, be the time for the newly-oppressed nations to rise in a general revolt and come, in this way, to the aid of the Allies who are fighting not only for themselves, but at the same time waging the war of all new victims countries who will thereby recover their lost liberty.
Revolts of this kind can only be carried on at the price of bloody sacrifices. Better make such sacri-{Aces against the oppressors than be forced to make them for their prof.
"Faint heart never won fair' lady." 'And, for red-blooded men what lady fairer than that Liberty they in-hented from their forefathers, that. Liberty, which inmost cases' their forefathers acquired at the sacrifice their lives, that Liberty which they found in their cradle together' with the moral obligation to preserve it at, all costs During revolts of this kind, in the past, sickles, picks, axes, slakes, in fact' anything handy was' made. good fuse of by the male populations of villages and towns to get rid of their Tu the times of machine-guns and sub-machine guns, such weapons may appear ridiculously insumeient, but they are as good as any others if one can "get near enough to one's oppressors.
Liberty must and will prevail in Europe, whatever the cost and whatever Hitler and his hordes of savage; Machine-runners may do to dry and ur soldiers, our sons are fighting "tike hell." Let us be thankful and full of confidence in their numberless sacriftees and meanwhile "Haut les Shanghai, May 23, German Brutality:
Dose of Own Medicine Wanted To the Editor of the "Nonmi-Ciaxa Dany News"
Su—To quote from a letter recently published in this column: "He who shows a generous measure of good will on the field of lite, will ever fal) to reap abundant harvests Maybe—but those kind-hearted Hollanders and Norwegians who, twenty years ago, opened their hearts and homes to. needy German children, would perhaps have preferred a dit: ferent kind of harvest from the one the Nazi bombers lately rained upon their unprepared heads, Why waste ceremony on an aggressive rattlemake No scruples what ever will deter him and, deeply as jone deplores the fact, there are times in life when one has'no choice about the course of action to be taken for self-defence, though one can hardly visualize the RAF. chasing defence. less women and children with a murderous hail of bullets. Tt would be the hiolght of foolishness to refrain {from paying out the present scourge Europe in their own coln—not that we should ever descend to their inhuman level—but only when Germany gets a large and persuasive dose of liber own' self-lauded medicine, will there be any hope of" civilized countries and decent people within; her own borders being able to live in peace.
Shanghai, May 20, German Lies:
A Reader's Reaction To the Editor of the "Nonm-Cuxa Dany News"
Sun—Herr Cordt's venomous elucurations (0 the Chinese journalists, reported in your today's number, can also be answered by refering" this, truthful orator (a rather pale copy of his master Gochring, by the way) fo a series of drawings due to. the pen of the Alsatian caricaturist Hansi and which appeared in many continental papers some years before 1918.
In these drawings, with his usual verve, Hansi depicted, through the ages and their endless invasions, from the' time of the Sleambers up to! modern times, the well-known pro-pens ities of the Teutonic soldatesque, pillagers at heart, for removing th furniture and" fixtures of houses in their occupation, One of the last drawings, relating to the year 1870 depicted a bearded and bespectacled landwehr's soldier removing, with true German thortoughness, the smallest items of such 'a furniture, not forgetting the baby's perambulator and a certain vase, mostly used during the night, the' whole to be sent to his good hausfrau.
This series of life-like drawings /gave our teutonic friends the sting their lives. Tl_n'y a que Jo verite qui tache. Lies are better met with contempt.
If T remember right, in his famous book, the "Four Knights of Apocalysis," depicting the 1914 invasion, the rear Spanish writer Blasco Ibanez, had also, with his consummate art, /something to say about the removal of the best pieces of furniture in a certain occupied castle, somewhere in the north of France.
"Anyway T wonder if it was quite necessary to organize a reception at the Park Hotel to deliver this clumsy Piece of lying propaganda and pay these journalist 2 gratuitous insult 10 their intelligence which 1 rate much' higher than that of the orator.
Shanghai, May 25.
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