CHINA CONFIDENT
READY FOR PROLONGED WAR
TRAINING AND PREPARATION
PROFESSOR'S OPTIMISTIC SURVEY.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.
LONDON, January 17.
Professor Chang Peng Chun, a member of the People’s Political Council interviewed on his arrival by air from Chungking today, said that 240 divisions. each of 20.000 men, were to be trained for the second phase of the war, 30,000 of the men to be trained as officers.
China, during the first phase of the war, fought chiefly on the defensive, but the second phase would be an offensive. China was ready for a prolonged war and supremely confident of victory. Arsenals, and even aerodrome factories. had sprung up in the southwestern provinces. Chinese casualties were formerly three to every one oi the Japanese, but were now exactly the reverse. Japanese troops totalled 1,000.000, but nearly 400.000 were immobilised in Manchuria.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 7
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139CHINA CONFIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 7
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