CHINA AND THE WAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 127, 1 June 1942, Page 3

CHINA AND THE WAR

NO SEPARATE PEACE

CONSULATE OFFICIAL'S VIEW

"There is no thought in our country of making any separate peace with the enemy that we have fought for five years as long as that enemy has strength to threaten any of our Allies," said Mr. Sze Zau Tsung, of the Chinese Consular-Scr-vice, who has reached New Zealand to take up an appointment at the Consulate - General in Wellington. China was confident, added Mr. Sze, that none of the Allies would seek peace until the invader had been forced back to his own land.

Active, sincere and wholehearted co-operation among the A.B.C.D. Powers, said Mr. Sze, would bring victory. New Zealand and Australia could help China best by protecting themselves to the utmost, for China could never be safe while other nations of the Pacific were being overrun.

Since 1909, Mr. Sze, who is 56 y£ars of age, has served most of his time abroad. Between that year and 1917 he was stationed at Copenhagen, London and Vienna. Later he served Melbourne, where he was ViceConsul for three years, Rome, Batavia and Nanking. His last post was as Consul in the Federated Malay States. Last February he was evacuated from Kuala Lainpur to Singapore, and, after exciting adventures in an unsuccesful attempt to return to China, he was directed by his Minister at Canberra to pro ceed to New Zealand.