LIFE IN NANKING

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 255, 27 October 1937, Page 7

LIFE IN NANKING

CITY OF TROGLODYTES JAPANESE AIR RAIDS SMALL MILITARY DAMAGE (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) Received Oct. 26, 9.50 p.m. NAxTKING, Oct. 26. The capital has become a city of troglodytes owing to the repeated Japanese air raids. After the sounding of the second syren the whole popultion takes to dugouts, streets are cleared and business suspended. When “all clear” is sounded the people emerge and resume their activities. In addition to private dugouts, all the main have public dugouts, and even the traffic policemen are supplied with small shelters alongside their posts. The Japanese air raids have lost their terror. Despite the fact that more than 700 bombs have been dropped the total military damage is astonishingly small. The military hospitals suffer from an appalling lack of supplies, being completely unequipped to face the enormous casualties pouring in from all fronts. Dr. Ju Heng-lui, Minister of Health, declares that owing to the shortage of staff in 150 hospitals he is arranging to recruit Austrian doctors, who will accept smaller salaries than British and Americans. FAILURE AT SHANGHAI JAPANESE DISAPPOINTMENT Received Oct. 26, 11.5 p.m. TOKIO, Oct. 26. The Japanese public are very disappointed over the failure at Shanghai despite the high casualties. "MALICIOUS CHARGE” CHINA AND COMMUNISM WELLINGTON, Oct. 25. Respecting a charge that China is turning Communistic, the Chinese Consul has received a cablegram from China giving a joint manifesto issued by the Chinese National Chamber of Commerce, the Shanghai Chamber of Commerce, the Chinese National Federation of Industries, the Shanghai Workers’ Federation, the Chinese Cotton Mill Owners’ Association, the Shanghai Chinese Bankers’ Association, the Shanghai Native Bankers’ Association, and the Shanghai Civic Association, which reads as follows: — “In all democratic countries, freedom of political belief is permitted so long as armed force is not resorted to as a means of achieving political power. In this period of grave national crisis, the Chinese Communist Party, having abandoned their policy of violence and land confiscation, has openly declared allegiance to Dr. Sun’s Three Peoples’ Principles, and has voluntarily liquidated the Soviet Government in China and placed the former Red army under the central command of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. These conditions are quite similar to those which prevail in other democratic countries. What is being practised in China in the way of issuance of bonds has long been in effect in all progressive countries. It involves no compulsion whatever. On the contrary, all private property and enterprises are being accorded the fullest legal protection. AJI this, which is well known to foreign nationals resident in China, is sufficient refutation to the groundless malicious charge of the Japanese propagandists that China is turning Communistic, a charge that is deliberately made to mislead world public opinion and camouflage Japan’s real motive of subjugating China.”