WHERE CHINA STANDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1938, Page 8

WHERE CHINA STANDS

STATEMENT BY NEW ZEALAND CONSUL UNITED NATIONAL EFFORT. RESISTANCE TO FOREIGN AGGRESSION. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. An interview with the new Japanese Consul-General, Mr Kuchi Gunji, last week has drawn a reply from the Chinese Consul, Mr Feng Wang. China’s policy, he says, rests firmly on the foundation of “three people’s principles,” enunciated by the late Dr Sun Yat Sen. During the last decade supreme efforts had been made by the Kuomintang and the National Government to prevent the spread of Communist doctrines and to suppress the violence of the Chinese Communists. The long-drawn-out campaign against the Communists and the great cost it involved are facts too well known to require lengthy narration. More recently the Communist. Party, awakening to the acute danger of foreign aggression, realised that national salvation could be achieved only through whole-hearted enforcement of the three “People’s Principles.” Consequently, on September 22, the Communist Party formally declared, first, the renunciation of the theory and practice of violence; second, the cessation of all activities aimed at Bolshevising China; third, abolition of the Chinese Soviet; fourth, abandonment of the Chinese Red Army. “In view of those developments,” said Mr Feng Wang. “It may be said that the whole Chinese nation is devoted to the three People’s Principles” today, striving under the guidance of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to resist foreign aggression and to realise Dr Sun Yat Sen’s lofty ideals. The facts cannot be obscured by propaganda, however cleverly contrived. It cannot be overemphasised that the present unhappy state of relations between the Chinese and Japanese is entirely due to Japan’s ceaseless aggression against China.” In regard to the claim that Japan wants co-operation with China, Mi’ Feng Wang says Japan wants domination, not co-operation. She can have co-operation the moment she abandons her traditional policy of force, ceases from acts of aggression and recalls her forces. PARADE IN HANKOW. WORKERS SUPPORT CONTINUED RESISTANCE. . (Recd This Day, 11.30 a.m.) HANKOW, May 1. Eighty thousand Chinese workers staged a May Day parade and passed a resolution in favour of continued