IF JAPAN ATTACKS CHINA.
V "Japan will practise positional warfare with tbe purpose oi. crushing the Chinese armies in a fcw decisive battles. China should avoid decisive engagements at all costs in the early stages of sucb a eonflict, and should seek to utilise the strength of its niasses to encircle the enemy and harass it with guerilla taeties. 1'n a long war, Japan will not have sufficient man power and supplies to sustain a large-scale eanipaign. Another point in postponing any early pitched hattles is that China in the heginning will be at a dis--advantage in that her supply of arins and anmmnition will be inferior to that of Japan. This may be compensated for later by capture of enemy equipment and importation of munitions from friendly Powers. Before our arms have been modernised we must make use of partisan warfare and every other dilatory method to weaken ihe enemy. Only when we have adequate military equipment can we risk positional warfare involving decisive battles." — Chu Teh, chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council and Com-mander-in-Chief of the Red armies in China, /
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 4
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182IF JAPAN ATTACKS CHINA. Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 4
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