CHINA'S SACRIFICE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 76, 22 December 1937, Page 5

CHINA'S SACRIFICE

■PresB Assooiation.)

Confidence in Ultimate Victory CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S MANIFESTO

(By Telegrapb—

WELLINGTON, This Day. The -Chinese Consul has received a cablegram from Hankow embodying the inanifesto issued by Marshal Chiang Kai-shek to the Chinese nation. It states: — "The sacrifice we have made in fighting a defensive war has been unparalleled I sl our history. As long aa I have the least breath in me I will sacrifice to the utmost limits and will continue to resist the enemy until final victory is achieved. "The enemy has captured Nanking. Its object is to conquer China. At the present time we should not attach too much importance to any temporary auccess or defeat. We should understand that for us it is a war bf resistance to the bitter end and one which the Chinese revolution must pa'ss through. "Although we are not equipped like our enemy, our spirits should never falter or be Bubdued. It would be better to be defeated in battle than to subinit. In continuing the fight after defeat in battle there will come a time when victory will be won. "Moreover, the farther the enemy penetrates inland the more difiicult and passive will his position be. In the end liis military strength will be coinpletely exhausted, and iiual victory will be ours. We iight to maintain our country's existence aud indopeudence. At the same time we fight to uphold nghteousness among the nations of the world,"