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“HE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 25, 1989

JAP. ATROCITIES CAUSED BY BRUTAL OFFICERS. SAYS AGNES SMEDLEY

Brutal treatment of Japanese "The Japanese are in about the soldiers by their officers is the ex-same stage of intellectual und spiri- planation of the wholesale slaugh-tual dévelopment as were Genghis |ter, looting and raping by the Nip-Khan's hordes a few centuries ago, ponese army in China, given by though, they have added a few Agnes Smedley, well known writer frills, externally. In fact, the Jap on Communism in the Far East, anese campaign in China is fashion- who is now travelling with the New fed much after that of the barbarous Fourth Route Army.`

Mongols of that time," Agnes Smed- ley concludes.

This fact is revealed in an article which Miss Smedley contributes to the China Weekly Review,

"We have proof enough now that the High Command of the Japan- ese 'Army deliberately brutalizes the soldiers. If they did not do so this war could not continue; for 'most of the

soldiers in

common

the Japanese army are men worried

JEWISH

SETTLEMENT

about the poverty of their familie POSSIBLE IN

at home", she says.

OFFICERS LEAD TERROR

RHODESIA

LONDON, TO-DAY. THE COLONIAL OFFICE AN- NOUNCES THAT THE EMIGRA- TION JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE CO-ORDINATING COMMIT-

"Many of the officers lead and command their troops in burning, looting, raping and slaughtering," the article continues. "It you study the captured Japanese letters and diaries diaries, particularly the you can see the steady brutaliza-TEE FOR REFUGEES HAS AR- tion of the Japanese Army," Miss RANGED FOR A COMMISSION OF EXPERTS TO PROCEED BY Smedley declares.

AIR TO NORTH, RHODESIA" TO "In the entire Nanking-Chin- EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITIES SETTLEMENT at the OF REFUGEE kiang region, where I am present time, the one occupation THERE.

of

of the Japanese soldiers, when they The commission will consist are not killing, is hunting for wo-Sir James Dunnett (formerly of men," she says.

the Indian Civil Service), Colonel W. H. Nicholls (who is connected

ese

+

"To state that only Chinese pro- stitutes are being used by the Japan-with the refugee settlement opera- M. Murock is troops

untrue," the tion in Kenya), Mr. widely read writer con- (former Assistant Secretary of the tinues. "There are not enough Government of Palestine, and now prostitutes in all' China to fill the Chief Secretary, Uganda), Mr. H. Japanese brothels in the Hongkew Croad (former Provincial Commis- district of Shanghai alone. Most sioner in North Rhodesia) and Mr. seconded of the girls and women in the 'Com- A. Khasanof. (who was fort Houses of the Imperial Army' by the Palestine-Jewish Colonisa-

tion -Association). are captives.

.

“WILL HAPPEN ELSEWHERE”,

"Let

no civilized man to-day wash his hands' by saying that the

The commission will be associat- |ed with ́a, local committee appointed

by the Governor.

.

The commission'will probably alšo visit Nyasaland to investigate the women used by the Japanese are pro- possibility of settlement of a small stitutes. It is not true. What is number of agriculturists there. happening to the women of China Reuter.

to-day will happen to the women of other countries if the Japanese

are victorious," states the article.

VIENNA CARNIVAL Sneers At Clericals

On Rose Monday all Vienna was dancing The Carnival of 1989, the first Vienna has known in the German style, concludes with the Opera Ball.

AIR “RECORD” IN SWIMSUIT

Captain H. H. Balfour, Under→ Secretary of State for Air and war-time pilot, claimed the record of being the first man to fly un- clothed over Norfolk in an address at Broadstairs...:

"For twenty years I have pilot ed aeroplanes of different kinds in different parts of the world, The sneers and gibes at the but I have never feared, engine clericals and at the familiar fig-trouble as much as I did one day ures of recent modern history in in 1918 in this country," he said. Vienna, which were emboided in "At the aerodrome where I was the Carnival procession have been stationed it was the practice or taken in good part by the Vien- officers to fly over to the sea for nese as a whole. Some bitter- a bathe..

"It was a quiet stretch of const ness was caused by caricatures of ex-President Miklas and Dr. and in the ordinary way we did Dollfuss, and of a priest at the not have to worry much, confessional.

"I must admit that I suffered

It was rumoured that inscrip- a little anxiety however, when I tions had been found on walls of emerged from the sea one day to such asWe kept the find my clothing gone. There was.

t of Vienna and we will nothing for it but to get back In- the Germans out." These to the plane,

ours are not

the police.

confirmed by "But how I prayed that there.

would be no engine trouble!"