THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER. 10, 1938.
FREE CHINA BORN OUT OF THE RAVAGES OF WAR
CHENGTU, YESTERDAY. ́N OUT OF THE RAVAGES OF CHINESE CITIES, KILLING OF SCORES OF THOUSANDS OF CIVILIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN. AND MEN, ORPHANING OF TENS OF THOU- SANDS OF HELPLESS CHILDREN, AND BLOWING TO PIECES OF OVER TWO MILLION CHINESE ON THEIR OWN NATIVE SOIL, HAS BEEN BORN A FREE CHINĂ, WHICH REFUSES "TO SUBMIT TO ANY AGGRESSION IN WHICH OTHER NATIONS OR PEOPLE FORGE THE IN- TELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AND ECO- NOMIC FETTERS FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE ANCIENT EMPIRE OF CHINA,”
This observation was made by he can read or not he has an idea Dr. Ralph A. Ward, Resident Bis-that the struggle on distant battle lop of the Methodist Episcopal fields somehow is a sruggle which Church in Chengtu. who spoke on means something for his own "Some International Issues, as: future, and a very Seen from Chengtu, China.” over future at that." the radio.
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"Free China is vastly more than One of the most encouraging a 'last ditch' or a hiding place for signs in China at present, in the defeated armies," Dr. Ward, a opinion of Bishop Ward, is that long-time resident in China, assert into Free China have come hun- ed. "It is another nation within dreds of thousands of people who the Chinese nation, a powerful re- had money enough to get here or serve for the new Chinese national had education and abilities enough success. If the cautious capitalist so that some modern • institution of other nations but knew the im-would pay their expenses to Free! pregnable reserves of Free China China to help re-establish industries for the present struggle, he would or schools or business in one of the feel security for the future of his largest under-developed areas of
loans to the Chinese Na- the world. tionalist Government.
war
"The poverty of masses of people VAST AREA
in West China has not been the but to lack of natural rosources Geographically, according to Bishop Ward, Free China is that rather to the lack of modern means and vast inland area west of the Upper of production and distribution Yellow River and south of the marketing. The war has brought Yangtze River and west of
the to Free China many millions Yangtze Gorges. Its vast out-capital and has brought Chinese teachers and scientists and or- reaches spread toward Russia on the North, Indo-China on the ganisers and business men to de South, and mysterious Central Asia velop this great reservior of China's
latent wealth."--Central News. on the West.
"In Free China there is no shor-
tage of food, no rationing of any
of
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come scores of middle schools and In the supplement to this issue of colleges and universities and [the "China Mail,” there is an article technical schools from the devas by Mr. Eugene Chen, the second tated areas of the country. The paragraph of which should read as first year of the 'undeclared war follows: has brought a trek of intellectuals "Since the issue at stake is the such as has never been witnessed very life or death of the Chinese in human history. They have not People as a historic Nation with come to distant schools of learning, centuries of life and culture and They have brought their insitutions material riches,. I permit myself to with them, five hundred, a thou sand, fifteen hundred miles, deter mined to live and learn where they can be free to learn facts, not merely the censored compulsions of foreign military dictatorship.
-NO DIZZY INFLATION "In Free China, despite a year of ruthless war, there is no shortage
of money. The new Chinese na
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any that I do not write lightly or without knowledge of the situa- tion as it aqtually exists behind the censorship and propaganda, One must needs, of course, say nothing that may abate or affect the morale of the People. But it seems to me a duty imposed by political realism, by patriotism, by good sense to re- peat to-day in moderate but clear
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to be read and understood as one Dr. Ward-bore witness : tỏ the who is striving for the truth as spectular growth of nationalism in manifested in the inexorable facts China. The man
man who pulls your and realities of the national crisis," rickshaw of: helps to carry your By an oversight the final para- sedan chair discusses the way graph of the article was omitted: His friends are soldiers and he
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