To the Editor of the Points in Letters:
The Bombing of Shanghai To the Editor of the "NortH-Cntna Dany News"
Str,—There have lately appeared a few letters in the correspondence columns of your esteemed paper which cause me to ask for your hospitality for a few lines.
The first is the one from the Chinese student, Mr. Kino Son BING who frankly—and I for one think quite correctly—states that one of the reasons for many of the young men not joining the ranks of the combat ants is "that a large number of students are convinced that under present ruling circumstances it would be foolish to risk their lives for "Norti-Citxa Dairy News"
Sir,—Does one become a "burning evangelist" merely by distributing tracts and canvassing for subscriptions to religious papers? If so, what adjective is left for John Wesley and the founder of the Salvation Army?
Seeing that A Cnristtan quotes the Old Testament (Revised Version?
I will go to the New, reminding him their fruits ye shall know and that Shanghai is a refuge the oppressed and feeds the hungry, Shanghai, July 27. something not worth while think and I know many with me believe that this quite correctly pictures the mind of a very large—and by far not the least valuable in a national sense—part of the Chinese population, who do not confuse the Kuomintang and their war with the excuse of China and the nation's A Rajah's Protest:
Sarawak Independent To the Editor of the "Norti-Cuina Dany News"
Sm;—In today's issue you make reference to how Sarawak "became future. Not that these people are "pro-Japanese," I believe there are very few indeed who really are that, but there are many who think that the present war and specially the carrying it and its destruction into the Yangtze valley was a crime. which both could and Should have been avoided and who think in terms of the nation's future, and are confident that a nation of 70 million cannot (and know they cannot) really conquer and hold permanently a nation of 400 million or more even if they may, by war, destroy a political clique, pant of the British Empire The neighbouring territory, of Labuan is British, being part of the Straits Settlements, but Sarawak is an independent State and never has been part of the British Empire. There was, I believe, at one time a British Adviser but even this*connection was discontinued many years ago.
R. D.
Shanghai, July 27.
***The correspondent is correct. Sarawak is an independent stale under British pratection,—Ep.
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