CHINA’S STRUGGLE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 22 January 1938, Page 9

CHINA’S STRUGGLE.

CONFERENCE AT HONG KONG. OVERTURES TO RUSSIA. HONG KONG, Jan 10.

Five of the leading women of China and one man are engaged at Hong Kong in a vital conference. Out of it, it is expected, will come a decision to take resolute and decisive action against the Japanese invaders. In the meantime 40,000 Russian troops are reported to have entered Outer Mongolia and to have been posted at strategic points. Madame Oliiang Kai-shek has arrived to join her sisters, Mesdames Sun Yat-sen and H. H. Kung, and her brother and sister-in-law x Dr and Mrs T. V. Soong, in the unique conclave. Madame Sun Yat-sen is the widow of Dr Sun Yat-sen, “father of the Chinese Revolution,” who overthrew the Manchus in 1911 and made China a Republic. Madame Kung is the wife of China’s Finance Minister who, since Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek went on active service with the army, has been Prime Minister. • , Also at Hong Kong, taking part in the conversations, is Madame Sun Fo, daughter-in-law of Dr Sun Yat-sen. Her husband, Dr Sun Yo, is on his way to Moscow, to enlist active cooperation against'Japan from the Soviet. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, it is stated, will offer the Chinese Soviets complete autonomy in the western provinces of Sinkiang, Szechwan, and Shensi. If Japan is crushed, China is willing that the northern part of Manchuria (now the Japanese puppet State of Manchukuo), Korea, (seized by Japan in 1895), and both Outer and Inner Mongolia, shall go to the Soviet. In return, the Soviet is expected to provide China with 500 warplanes each month and to build a railway for the transport; of war materials to western China. The five Chinese delegates, before going to Moscow by way of London, will consult Dr Wellington Koo. He wa6 China’s principal delegate at the abortive Nine-Power Conference at Brussels in December.