The West is Silent

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 203, 13 September 1937, Page 7

The West is Silent

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F0RG0TTEN PACTS

Madame Chiang Kai-shek is Bewildered JAPANESE SAVAGERY

(By Telegraph-

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(Received 13, 1.40 p.in.) NANKING, Sept, 12. Madame Chiang Kai-shek, in a broadt ast speeca expressed bewdderment at the silence of the Western nations on the conflict between Japan and Cliina. "If the Western world deliberately abandons its treaties," she said, "the Chinese, who for years had been stigmatised as cowards, will figiht until they win or are beaten to their broken knees, even if their good earth is 6teeped in blood, drenched with fire and destroyed. "All treaties outlawiug war and regulating its conduct seem to have crumbled. We have a reversion to savagery. The Japanese militarists

are determined to wreck and eradicate all foreign influences in China. They must regard the occidental reception of the situaticm as delightfully encouraging deducing from it they have at last been able to inake a clean sweep of Western prestige. "These massacres are bound to extend, because tbe Japanese have prepared aercdroxnes at Shanghai. "We depend upon the wisdom and justice of the nations to save the world and China from the consequence of the daily Japanese falseboods