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CANTON BOMBED

AGAIN

1 ADVERSARIA

THE PROCLAMATION to the farmers of the Hopel area from that province's benevolent, puppet Gov- ernor Kao Lin wei, in which he said: If you continue to be foolishly anti- Japanese, you and your family will be killed and the whole village “af- fected when the Japanese army re- turns from its victories," makes us wonder a bit. Do you suppose, with that thought in mind, affection for up in Dai Nippon is apt to well every hopei resident's bosom like high tide in the Spring-time?/

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WITH ALL THE Representatives of the International Peace Cam- |paign) as well as numerous foreign dignitaries that have filled. Han- kow full and overflowing of late-- eventually, we trust, they will wake up to the fact that they are ap- parently in the wrong capital.

dis-

THE TROUBLE with the agreeable things that people say about us is that most of them are

After an interval of nearly a month, Canton was again ruth- lessly bombed yesterday, only the fact of large-scale evacua tion preventing the carnage of true. six weeks ago. Of between fifty and sixty bombs dropped, only eight struck regions which might

FOR SOME INSCRUTABLE rea- be termed military objectives.

son buried deep in the folklore of The remainder scattered death and destruction among boats

the race, the plight of the man in the who expects to become a father is the river and property in slum district of Wongsha, under supposed to be funny. Of course it isn't anything of the sort, but that conditions perilous to Shameen

apparently doesn't matter. The pic- itself and in circumstances mature favoured by the jokesmiths ing almost ridiculous any claim and the cartoonists is of a terribly that the bombs were aimed at worried chap, jittery and in need military objectives.

of a drink, who paces feverishly up It is a waste of time, perhaps, and down hospital corridors bother- to make further protest. Angering people and asking foolish ques- and criticism will not build bomb- tions-in, short, driving himself proof shelters for the civilian crazy. Now in the United States population of Canton. Then the Western Hospital Association. again, the Japanese military mind has opened an exhibit space in San is apt to argue that the Chinese Francisco "to articles designed to have brought the air scourge on help the worrying male through their own civilians: they have set hours of anxiety." up_anti-aircraft guns which

make it necessary for the Japan-

ese planes to bomb from a great

WHILE IT IS unquestionably

er height to avoid being hit by true that the critic seldom reads ground fire, and of

their apologists, course, say one third of an author's book, we

can- think that we may safely say that not be expected to hit only milit- the author reads every word of the ary objectives from such a dis- criticism. tance.

T.C.G.

Explanations will not satisfy an increasingly determined opin- ion in Hong Kong or the great democracies. This opinion says pect them to do nothing else, But that bombings of civilians under the drive of public opinion · be- whatever pretext must cease. Rehind these Governments is be fugee areas are still suggested, coming strong enough to encour- to be safeguarded by guarantees age them to explore more drastic from Japan that they would not remedies.

be bombed. In return Japan In the United States the fact would ask guarantees that the is not being missed that Japan areas were not to be used for has become the second largest military purposes. Yet in China buyer of American arms, am as in Spain bombings obviously munition, and implements of war have sought a military objec- including war planes. For long tive" in the morale of the civil it has been widely known in the ian population. To destroy that United States, and widely regret- morale has all too evidently been ted, that American scrap. iron one purpose of air raiders. In and other war products have Spain it stiffened the will to been helping Japan in its aggres- resist. But Japan's military lea-sion on China.

ders seem to be counting on a Now that three of the leading sheer magnitude of slaughter democracies controllers of such and frightfulness to overcome a great part of the world's raw the stimulus of resentment which materials and finance are fac air raids at first arouse. Even ing together the swelling threat moral support the Chinese of civilian bombing, their econo- Government by citizens in re mic ability to do something, as fugee areas could, by such logic contrasted with merely saying as Japan's military leaders em- something, may well occur to ploy, be estimated as of military their citizens. - It evidently will value and therefore as a proper require acts rather than words

for a bomb.

to convince ruthless leaders in

the protesting Gov- China or in Spain of the sincerity. of the moral protest against

vilian slaughter.

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