Hongkong, May 9.
Regarded here as indicative of the increasing importance attached by the Chinese Nationalist Government to Chengtu, capital of Szechuen, 2,000 men of the Model Division of the Central Army, formerly quartered outside Chungking, started for Chengtu in trucks on Friday, a belated report reaching from the bomb-scarred war capital indicated today.
A part of the Chungking gendarmerie has also left for Chengtu, the dispatch said. The Model Division is commanded by Gen. Kuei Yung-ching.
Meantime, large-scale movements of Central troops stationed at Wanhsien, Yangtze port in eastern Szechuen, were also reported. The destination of these forces was not disclosed.—Domei.
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"The case of Chungking is a particularly bad one. It is sufficiently clear that the Japanese aimed at mass-terrorism through slaughter. Chungking has no value as a target save that it offers exceptional opportunities of destroying civilian life."
"It is curious that the Japanese still believe in the efficacy of such measures, They might have learned by this time that bombs, so far from intimidating the Chinese, only stiffen their determination to resist Reuter.
Terrible Problem London, May 9.
"Morally, it may not be worse for the Japanese to kill 1,000 Chinese in an unjust war, than to kill 100 or one; the evil lies in the war itself."
This statement is contained in an article published today in the "Manchester Guardian," which comments on China's struggle in general, and the Chungking air raids, in particular, "In practice, however," it continues, "we are forced to judge actions by their effects on human happiness or human suffering, and, by such standards, the huge disaster fallen upon the Chinese people remains the most urgent and most terrible of all problems which confront us."—Reuter.
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