Show letterio Lett letter erlo to park record gives china s viewpoint from a recent issue of nt tile the park city record d w we clipped the filo following i letter froni from china which gercs gli ci a fair air idea of how citizens ot of that country regard japans activities note that it was written ln in december and before condit conditions lIns became go bo grave as hey bey appear io to be at present japan takes an ail entire entirely ly different view of tile the situation as bhoge elio heard the japanese lecturer over on wednesday evening will mow know there undoubtedly la is two sides to the controversy and probably much misunderstanding ol 01 both sides chinas cainas side of the question may be better understood from the following 1 shanghai china dec 1 10 1931 dear sam it Is possible that you wont remember me but we w bec fc old friends and it does not seem long since we met I 1 suppose you have read in the papers about the trouble in china achl iia jt it is very exciting and cruel inn way I 1 guess you wa wan 1 1 to know av about it so I 1 am gug 19 to arii and tell you all that I 1 know ohp japanese outrage lit in t thre north eastern provinces Province 9 china has been known ho the world I 1 believe bellev bp briefly bilea continued to back page LETTER io 10 PARK RECORD rives GIVES CHINAS VIEWPOINT continued from first page ins ing the japanese accused the chinese e soldiers of blowing up tip a section of 0 the south manchurian railway I 1 have every confidence conti dence that under whatever circumstances our soldiers would not do such a thins thing following this supposed event the japanese troops ninde made a furious attack upon 11 the chinese soldiers on tile the evening ot of september they marched right into Shen Sheng gyan yang mukden on the early morning of 1 they occupied rod and took the whole city like wild beasts they killed innocent persons md ind helpless people by sands they disarmed the soldiers and policemen beside these they chev destroyed public buildings and took whatever they could lay their hands on many carloads ot of valuable things ere shipped away the people were greatly terrified and many fled within forty eight hours two thirds of the northeast north east invaded by them ern n province was thus china has been struck with unspeakable grief but what else can we do we have no adequate for defense and besides then sixteen sateen of our provinces have just undergone a terrible flood millions of our people are suffering from starvation and disease can call such a abak country declare war against the he japanese no I 1 think japan is list a real coward to choose this minute to stage such surer surprised ased at lack upon a country having so great a calamity Is nothing short of cow ardice Ei lice japan has been trying to invade the north eastern province tor for the last thirty years since the d disastrous chinese japanese war in 1815 1895 culminating in the defeat of our country site she has forced china to make many humiliating treaties encroaching cro aching upon the privileges of our people and infringing upon chinas cainas sovereignty their real object is to annex these provinces and later invade the other other portion ot or our country at present we may not be able to tight fight against the invading cowards with swords and guns but china will surely not let japan take our land we have already brought this matter before the league ot of not nat ions I 1 0 ns but since the reconvening of the league meeting on Nov embr emper ican the news from the league has been getting from bad tu to worse it makes ones blood boll boil at any rate rata wp we are very impatient and hope the league will ivill act quickly to uphold justice the only way a weak country can ven her score now with a militaristic country like japan is by re hoiting to non cooperation a doctrine which I 1 am sure you understand we will particularly emphasize an economic boycott by doing this the japanese government will soon be forced to see the consequence of her tolly folly the japan japanese e having seized nearly north all the north eastern provinces now try to take actual control of 0 the three north eastern provinces she has attempted to restore the monarchy by setting up the py ax emperor henry blye as king of those provinces she tries to make these provinces pio plo vinces break away from the national government ai at so 80 that she can annex them like she did korea what trea ebery what mockery of justice although we may have to tight fight in ill the event of japan failing tallene to withdraw v her troops yet we still hope that althe league will settle this matter within the shortest time my dear friends now that you heard the whole cause I 1 do hope you wilt will help us by letting others know of this thia most outrageous act of modern times HENRY CHONG PT |