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Twice during the past year Great Brittain, France and the U. S. have appealed to the "world's conscience" against bombing of open cities. Fortnight ago. Canton, China, was subjected to a series of severe raids. Result: 1,000 dead, 1,500 wounded, widespread destruction. Following week the Spanish Leftist cities of Alicante and Granollers were blasted unmercifully. Listed victims: 600 dead, 1,500 wounded, women and children predominating. So last week, unanimous Big Protest Series No. 3 was issued so simultaneously from London, Paris and Washington as to seem suspiciously like joint action...
Britain and Bombs. At Burgos, Spanish Rightist capital. British Agent Sir Robert Hodgson informed Generalissimo Franco's Government of His Britannic Majesty's Government's "horror" at civilian losses in Leftist Spain. At Tokyo, British Ambassador Sir Robert L. Craigie objected to "indiscriminate" aerial attacks on Canton. While Laborites in the House of Commons pointedly demanded that Britain do something besides "hold up her hands in horror." Richard Austen Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, outlined a plan to organize a small, neutral, independent, international commission to investigate all bombings...
...process of dismembering China but would leave the Chinese only a fraction of what was once their nation. In the Yangtze Valley, main trade stem of central China, industrial Hankow is second only to Shanghai. Into Hankow daily roll trainloads of supplies, munitions from China's New Orleans (Canton), planeloads and motorcades of vital arms and materials from Russia through Sovietized Outer Mongolia (China's Pacific Northwest...
...Japanese bombers over Canton where in a series of raids they killed 1,000 persons, wounded 1,500, destroyed the Wongsha Railroad Station, and demolished an entire train in an effort to disrupt China's major munitions route...
Albert C. Howell -- Miss Nancy D. Grover, Canton...