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out all the trouble of first over- but coming his armies in the field. The heaviest casualties are go- ing to be in the most crowded areas of big cities. It is true that aircraft cannot occupy ter ritory, but destruction of the supply system has the same effect, it can compel surrender. Peiping, Tientsin, Nanking, Shanghai and now Canton those have been the names appearing in the war news. The complica tion of international interests in Shanghai has not been enough to make any difference to the essen- Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1937-tiaktrend of the new warfare.
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One of the most destructive bombs was that which fell into
CASUAL CASUALTIES Sincere's where many entirely
pacific people were doing their shopping. But the very jejunë It has frequently happened
accounts that have appeared give that a cause thoroughly good in but a faint idea of the state of itself and widely championed has siege experienced and described had to wait for success for some by eye-witnesses. The fact that event or series of events that had danger was intermittent did not affect the state of suspense of Ino apparent relevance to the those who knew their homes and cause itself. The great religious families to be in danger, and the wars of Europe in the sixteenth effect of a modern bomb is in- century did not produce any decreased by the bricks, stones and
other articles it sends flying cision on the religious questions One bomb exploding - under that caused them. People got motor lorry lifted it through a tired of the slaughter and devas-shop window. Two friends
riving off a ship from the North tation and adopted the quaint that had just hitched onto its compromise that a man should buoy were met by another friend be presumed to have the samem a new car. A bomb landing after religion as his Prince. The slogan thirty yards away soon
they had started filled the car was cujus regio ejus religio,
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a man's religion depends on with mud and debris and stopped where he lives. Was there ever the engine. While the owner a less logical maxim? But it saymourned the appearance of his car, which had suddenly taken ed Europe from lapsing back on a very second-hand aspect, to sheer barbarism. Then there our informant was specially was Free Trade. As a logical grieved at the rum of the new suit of clothes which he had system it was propounded by donned in honour of the occasion. Jeremy Bentham towards the At one time anyone who walked end of the eighteenth century along the Bund was It was preached in a great pop risk equal to that of an engage lar campaign by Cobden and ment on the Western Front, and Bright for years, and was adopt greater than that of most of the ed on its merits by all the in-fold battles
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