“A HOLY WAR.”
AS JAPANESE SEE IT. . DUNEDIN, Nor, 24. Under the heading, “AVith China Emergency,” a Japanese exporting firm lias forwarded a letter, quaintly phrased, to a large Dunedin firm setting out the position in the Sino-Japanese war from the viewpoint of Japanese merchants. “AVe feel sure you may have a bad opinion about us by this tirhe in connection with the above event, for we are told propaganda spread from the Chinese side is very rampant and devoid of decency, and we are very much put out by them,” the writer ’ states. ‘‘However, we are sure that you have sense enough not to 6wallow their tales indiscriminately, for we hear, it told they,are spreading false news that have no grain of truth, but to our regret they have so far succeeded, in making people in foreign lands believe their yarns to the certain detriment to cur interest. ‘‘We all candidly believe we are fighting a holy war to save not only ourselves but the world from the chaos of destruction and to have mercy on the peaceful people of China, and to save them from tyrannic war lords who are at the bottom and cause of the present war by their avarice and greed. AVith them thriving no world can have~peace,” the letter concludes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 1, 29 November 1937, Page 7
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