FIVE YEARS' WAR

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 132, 21 July 1941, Page 5

FIVE YEARS' WAR

CHINA'S WONDERFUL SPIRIT INDUSTRIES TRANSPLANTED TO INTERIOR On the occasion of the opening of 'the fifth year of the war between Japan and China references have been made to the common cause of both nations with the belligerent nations in the war raging in the West sxnd the Near East China ranging herself with the United States, Britain and Russia, and Japan with the Axis Powers. In this aspect of the war important developments are possible in the shape of more active participation. China's: struggle against Japan has been one of the marvels of history. Not in a military sense, for Japan has had the better of the exchanges in actual warfare, as might have been expected, but in the new nation China has organised behind hei rampart of central mountains. Here 'the Chines© have mustered to renew the fight for ultimate victory,. The whole of this interior country has been transformed by the energy of 9 nation alive to its desitiny and prepared to defend it to the last. Industries for peace and war have been built up with the aid of sixty million refugees from the plains of the Yangtze and the Hoang-Ho and the machinery they took Avith them from the industrial centres round Hankow, while the Japanese lost ?i golden opportunity of conquest It/ orgies in the recently captured Nan king. In the north the Japanese were foiled again by the cutting of the 'banks of the Hoang-Ho and the flood, ing of cast areas of lowland. Sinca then the invaders have made sporadic advances here' and there, bu! vtliey are further from final victors (Continued in naxt column)