CHINA’S FAITH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19994, 20 July 1939, Page 7

CHINA’S FAITH

WILL WIN WAR CONFIDENCE OF MINISTER ENORMOUS MAN POWER MILLIONS OF FIT .MEN MOR E TOWNS CAPTURE l) (Eliic. Tnl. Copyright—Uniloil Press Assn.) (Reed. Julv 19 2.30 p.m.) ‘LONDON, July 18. A Shanghai report states that the Chinese forces captured Chaochow, the northern terminus of the railway from Swatow, and also Chaon, Anpu, Fuvang, Yihsi, and Fengshi, driving the Japanese southward after killing' 1000 men.

General Chen Cheng, viec-Minister of War, declares that the two years of war has hardly touched China’s man-power. The Jarmy numbered 1,000,000 When the war began, there .are now 2,500,000 front-line effectives. There is no difficulty filling the gaps due to casualties. “Besides 100 reserve regiments," he said, “there are 15,000,000 ablebodied men with some training who could be drafted fit to the front-line after short intensive training. Eight million men have been trained for military warfare in the past three years, and nearly 6,000,000 have been regimented into the local militia. It i: planned to train 4,500,000 additional men in various parts of China. China will win Ihiajwar.” v The Times Hong Kong correspondent says that the Japanese have temporarily abandoned the attack on Macao. The Chinese arc meeting the threatened Japanese landing at Swal:ue, where they are blockading the bays.

Japanese at Kulangsu stopped the water supply as a reprisal for the refusal to allow them to control the settlement police. The stabilisation fund again stopped selling sterling and the Chinese dollar fell to sd. The decline in the Chinese dollar is causing the Chinese to go to Canton, owing to the high cost of Jiving in Hong Kong, where the first Japanese English-language paper has appeared. The Japanese Consul General in Canton visited Hong Ivong on an undisclosed mission.

It is denied that the Japanese officially encourage the anti-British agitation.