The Washington times., 1938-06-16
Yes. War Is DEPRIVED

TT UMAN depravity has been prominently on parade
II at various junctures in the Chnese-Japanese
The sack of Marking by the Japanese of these
exhibitions the bombngs of Canton constitute another.
It has remained for Nine. Chang Kashek how
ever in series of articles published in this country,
to unveil low in depravity for this Nine.
Chang says that the Japanese in conquered Chinese
territory are demoralizng Chinese peasants workers
and coolies with opium
Since Sun Yat-sens time, Chinese leaders have been
trying to root the opium evil out of China. Some
progress was made. After the japanese took Man.
ehukuo, they began systematically stimulating the
opium business for the money that in it and for
its weakening effect the morale of its victims Now
according to Nine. Chang, they using it to
solidate their gains figuring that the cheapest
way to bride the coolies to betray their country is
with opium.
These things gradually tanning up indignation
in the United States The process is being helped
along, regret to observe, by of the minds in
our State Department. And Adj
war FeeLLngS miral Harry E. Yarnell, command
Fly -. ~ ing the United States Asiatic Fleet,
"""'"'9 OP has done his bit to warm up pa
triotic feelings at home by rejecting the Japanese
warning to keep his ships movements in the Yangtze
River carefully restricted-a long extension
Of the outworn freedom of the seas doctrine.
We believe these developments are regrettable and
dangerous.
War always was depraved. That is the thought we
should keep in mind as we read of the horrors in
Asia and the horrors in Spain.
Older residents of Georgia
Other wars H0De will tell you that the
No. nI duct of Sherman and his
D0o' armies depraved Our
forefathers thought that the British under Tareton
and the British who loosed the roquos borders
were depraved. The Crusaders who went to the Holy
Land to reclaim the tomb of Christ and returned with
Wor i+eo1f is nd
yet to be just getting into just getting
out of
The reason is that there is a streak of depravity
running through the human race, and that this de-
praHty manifests itself in war; among other things
No nation has a monopoly depravity. We cannot
justly denounce the japanese for showing the
kind of depravity have shown many times in the
past and probably shall show again in the future.
About the depravity of bombing the open city of
Canton-it should be remembered also that Canton is
the river port and rail center through which most of
the munitions shipments from Hongkong
S0OIng have been going to the Chinese. The
rL: Japs at least strategically shrewd in
O'" trying to break this munitions transfer
point, depraved though their methods may be. And
revolving though the opium story is, such tactics are
nevertheless strategic and economical.
Nor can we save the Chinese from the depravty of
the Japanese If nation of 400 900 people, with
untold natural resources cannot defend itself against
q nation of 100000 people living set of rocky
islands, it is probable that nothing defend it. Ger
tainly can't. China will have to itsef-unless
China is destined to be always serve nation under
some tyrants heel
Chna's chances look better and better, incidentally
Japan's latest attack China to have reawak-
ened Chinese patriotism united lot of Chinese in
determination to beat the Japs induced of them
to drop their Observation-Disclosures and think about the
fate of their country and stffen resistance to bribery
Certainly if China can bring Japan down to defeat
1t will be all to the good for But let's not get into
the fight.
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