Opposition to Surrender To-the Eaitor of the Sm—The aggressor is seeking to conquer China and the Chinese people. The Chinese people have Doon fighting bravely for their free dom and independence. They. inflict stich heavy losses on the aggressor that the latter finds it very dimeult, not impossible, to continue his campaign of conquest.
Among the Chinese people there fare a few weak-minded men who are afraid of making further sacrifices to defend their country. They covet the rank and wealth offered by the aggrosser and are Induced to serve thi enemy to subjugate their own countrymen, To these countrymen they say: "IL foolish to sacrifice any more, Surrender to the mighty conqueror China will be at peace if only you will surrender:
Fam sure the Chinese people have too much spirit in them to listen to such cowardly advice. Better die a man than live a slave! Peace is ardently desired, but without freedom there can beno peace, We must essist aggression to the bitter end! We will fight on until the aggressor Is driven out from our territory ever to return But against the aggressive nation we entertain no thoughts of revenge, We are aware of the fact that we Ourselves are partly to blame for bringing the matter to such straits, The civil war waged by our mili-larists, the corruption of our officials, the apathy of all of us to our government affairs: these have invited foreign invasion. Our enemy has taught us a bitier "Iesson and we should even be grateful for it, On his side, we hope by this time our aggressor too will have learned 3 ood lesson, It does not pay to vade the neighbour's country, You kill, you plunder, you bom, you rape: does all this give you any real benefit? You have merely. roused the anger of the Chinese people and made your relation with them more dimeuit than over, And yet, if only you will withdraw your army from China and repent Your past folly, the Chinese people will be ready to forgive you. Then and then only will there be real and Tasting peace between us.
"To the weokeminded Chinese who tare now the aggressor's puppets 1 will say: If you tremble before the force of might and find happiness in kneeling before it, well and good. But do not attompl to convert other men to your way of thinking. As to your rank and wealth, remember the following words of the pact Li Po:
"can rank and wealth long endure? Aathell fo Vepget the it iver Shanghai, July 1.
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