CHINA'S POSITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 215, 10 September 1940, Page 11

CHINA'S POSITION.

ROTARY LUNCHEON TALK. The position of China as the result of the war with Japan was graphically described at the Rotary Club yesterday by Mr. T. W. Martin Taylor, LL.B., an Aucklander who has travelled extensively in China. He traversed the military and Aha economic aspects and likened the spirit of the Chinese in the present struggle to that of the British in the fight against Nazi Germany. The strategy of General Chiang Kai-Shek he considered was outstanding. He had aJbandoned positions where there was a concentration of huge populations for the more hilly districts. He said it was considered by neutral observore that 1000 Japanese were killed daily in guerilla warfare. China would not submit to the domination of Japan, and was content to carry the war on for another 50 years if necessary. The population of China was 450,000,000, while that of Japan was 80,000,000, he said. Mr. Taylor outlined what was being done by China, an essentially agricultural country, in the way of developing industries in order that the country could carry on without imports. Millions of skilled workers and professional men had been transferred from one part of the country to another for industrial purposes and articles were being manufactured in China to-day that were previously imported. The industrialism of the country from a manufacturing standpoint was being carried out on a cooperative plan, divided into three sections.