Show I rI r Thomas M. M WILL YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN Within tho last several months by your own pan you refer to lo lotho tho tito Chinese Island of Formosa which was taken talen from China by Japan and you uphold Japan in this tl s conquest and by your pen you say But Dul though Japan has used Formosa as a stopping stono to tho products which Japan developed havo have been bean available to tho the world To say that Japan bo allowed ed to re- re t. bimi Formosa ionn Is h not to condone or to assign posses posses- ions howl undeservedly Japan has hash held h ld Formosa 1895 1805 and has closely ly integrated it into Japanese l p U Uso so economy However ho strongest st st. against aiming Formosa to 10 China is 4 tho tha lh present status frees China of th tha J need for ct ca fleet to an island possession Without the tho burden of control of tho sea China can car spend her hr energies on developing her hor own mainland and the border border- bordering ing lag continental areas China res hw never cared for conquest Hor entire philosophy Is ta against it It II If she can cern expand Inland toward tov Turkestan Tibet Mon Mon- and she will havo enough to satisfy a virile virila for a cc lr time linac to V. V Thomas Thomao evidently con con- a cx theft end sub subscribe scribe to a t c ry that if neighbor sha sto SI 13 your her anc and nuo O us ol 0 it t ta should bJ forgiven r C 1 I Ito tho p h f remain la 11 tho hands o o 0 t Mcf ieL i L u U IL i I i 1111 A. A i Ill 11 u ir r- r |