CHINESE ATROCITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 19533, 14 April 1927, Page 16

CHINESE ATROCITIES.

to THE EDITOR. Sir,—-Mr F. A. Nelson, as a.staunch Labor supporter, attacks Mr Gilchrist because he tells a few plaiu truths. If Mr Nelson read tho cables carefully ho would know that they contradict themselves. Very often men who road what, suits them turn a deaf ear to contradictions. Mr Nelson tells Mr Gilchrist to go to Russia to live, because they are not of the same opinion. Would Mr Nelson , tell the British to leave China and live in Britain? Both cases seem similar. He wants a reasonable Labor man to vote for, perhaps forgetting the cause, and, I assume, he may not bo particular whom he votes for on the other side. As Mr Gordon Gatto’s wife nursed mutilated women and children, there can be no doubt about it. The German soldier with his big gun did the damage, because false cables, capitalism, greed, propaganda, and pride of the bloodthirsty war lords forced him to scatter destruction broadcast, when in bis heart be would have preferred to bo ploughing the fields. If any other nation sent a messenger ahead with a pink bow on his arm to tell Indies and dear little children where the shells were going to fall, it would be news to me. “Pro Patna-” seems to be of the opinion that a. man cannot lie truthful and loyal at. tho same time. T can assure him that Mr Gilchrist and his comrades are doing their best to do away with the curse that caused the need of a monument, and they would do their utmost for those who returned. The question put to Mr Gilchrist by “ Pro Patria ” seems to be aimed below the belt (an election “stunt”), or the question of a man who cannot discern the difference between genuine sympathy and outward show or duty. I saw a woman kneel at the monument alone. No bells rang to proclaim she was there. As for “ Kim Hop Quick,” the story of the mutilated women and children made me shiver forty years ago, and I have seen it in print many a time since. —I am, etc., PeaceApril 13.