The senselessness of the present terrorist campaign in Shanghai cannot be too strongly condemned. The shooting of one or two Japanese. simply because they are Japanese, does not advance (he Chinese cause a single bit, the western areas outside the International Settlement, have their movements hampered. To what purpose? It may be of some advantage to China to keep the Japanese invaders in a constant state of alarm, but if t objective can only be achieved by causing hardships to something like four million per-Sons. the majority of whom would gladly welcome the return of the Chinese authorities, ihe objectives is likely to do the cause more harm than good. It would be unwise to generalize about these assassinations. No doubt there have been instances when the motives of the assassins have been purely personal—cases of revenge, or wiping out some one who has been squeezing the squeezer. Cases such as these are, of course, simply criminal and politics of the Sino-Japanese hostilities are not mixed up with chem. Bus it is regrettably true that in some cases it has been proved that the motive has been to kill some Japanese—any Japanese—for no other reason than that he is Japanese. There is no parallel between the murders perpetrated in Shanghai and the anti-German activities which have been going on in occupied Europe. Germans have been pushds im _oopupies Sodann suf
ut they have been killed seriously, disappeared in the forces of hould not be forgotten, is an international out. Shanghai, it settlement. Ip has not been occupied by the the Settlement has been built is Chinese and Chinese sovereignty is undisputed, the wellbeing of the millions who reside upon it is the charge of a foreign Consular Body and a Council, once elected by Shanghai citizens, now appointed by the consuls of the powers concerned, and by the Chinese Ratepayers terrorists can hope to gain by indiscriminate murder. If it could be shown that the freedom or recovery of China were advanced one whit by these assassin have nothing to say all, China is in eves with "Jay But the picking off of an occasional civilian in this very complex community results only in penalties being indirectly imposed upon everyone residing here, and since this city is still one of the most impor.ant cities in occupied or unoccupied China, the result is only another crippling of its most vital activities.
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