"MY PILOTS WILL SOAR TO TOKIO"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 49, 20 November 1937, Page 5

"MY PILOTS WILL SOAR TO TOKIO"

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Madame Chiang Kai-shek's Declaration CHINA'S NEW AIR-FORCE

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NANKING, Nov. 1U. "Soon my pilots will soar toward Tokio," stated Madame Chiang Kaishek to-day. ' 'For China, the war staxts to-day. Away from Shanghai, and under no necessity to be mindful -of foreign iiationals, China can now tbrow iu the whole of her forces. "Fortuately, land transport is bringing China badly-needed munitions, aircraft ad supplies from nations which realise that a Japanese conquest of China is a menace to their interests. "Becently 500 of the latest Europeanbuilt bombing aeroplanes arrived to supplement the Japanese Air Fofce. But s."»ou my air force will be supplementet by the most modern fast fighters and bombers, able to outfight and outdistance the latest Japanese aeroplanes. "hTe Japanese fail to realise that, although my air force is smaller i n numbers, it is trained and flown by experts from America and Europe. Soon my ' Dar#-and-Die' pilots will soar to Tokio. "Although I shall issue the strictest orders not to bomb the City of Tokio of non-combatants, Japan will realise that the Japanese boot may soon bu replaped by a Chinese sandal. "No great importance should bo ,attached to the Japanese victories in North China, and their occupation of Taiyuanfu, the capital of Sh'ansi Province. Our northern army is the most efficient in the Far East. It iacks only foir the moment heavy armaments, which we expect soon to be available. "It seems likely now that the Shanghai International Settlement will be isolated from the war front. That means that the Japanese invasion continues only on Chinese soil, to which tho Japanese -ve no shadow of right or title. "The Generalissimo and I wish the world to know that our ertirement from Shanghai was a tremendous Chinese gacfifice in the interests of foreign nationals." ,