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THE CHINA MAİL, JUNE 22, 1938

CHAMBERLAIN REVEALS FEELINGS ON JAPANESE ATROCITIES IN CHINA

London, To-day.

Speaking in the foreign affairs debate in the Com- mons immediately after Mr. Noel Baker, who opened for the Opposition, the Prime Minister said he thought there would be general agree- ment with the remarks which had fallen from Mr. Baker upon the horrors of modern war and about the practice of bombing from air. "Indeed," said Mr. Chamberlain, "if it were not that China is so far away and the scenes taking place there so remote from our everyday con- sciousness, I think the sentiments of pity, of horror and of indignation which would be aroused by the full perception of these events, might drive this people to courses which per- haps they have never yet contemplated."

The premier also accepted the be put before other countries for remark of Mr. Baker's that it was acceptance or modification with a wrong to lay down that new view to reaching some inter- weapons made new laws, but he national understanding on the said he must qualify that' with the rules of aerial warfare. There proviso that new weapons might were, at any rate, three rules or introduce new conditions which re-three principles of international quired if not the recasting, at any law which he thought they might rate the elaboration of existing say were applicable to aerial war- laws. The fact was that there was fare as fully as they were to war at present no code of international on land or sea. law respecting aerial warfare gen-

THREE RULES erally accepted. There were cer- First, it was against international tain rules of international law law to bomb civilians as such and to established for sea and land war- make deliberate attacks on civilian fare, and those rules or the prin-populations. That undoubtedly was ciples underlying them were ap-a violation of international law. Se- plicable to aerial warfare, but they condly, targets must be legitimate did not entirely meet the case military objectives and be capable of which had to be met to-day. -

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