“CHINA WILL WIN”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1939, Page 6

“CHINA WILL WIN”

CONFIDENT DECLARATION BY MINISTER HUGE AND GROWING STRENGTH OF ARMY. NUMBER OF TOWNS RETAKEN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) SHANGHAI, July 18. The Chinese have captured Chaochow, the northern terminus of the railway from >Swatow and also Chaon. Anpu, Fuyang, Yihsi and Fengshi, driving the Japanese southward, after killing a thousand. General Chen Cheng, Vice-Minister of War, declares that two years of war have hardly touched China’s manpower. The Army numbered a million when the war began and now has 2J million front line effectives. There is no difficulty in filling gaps due to casualties. “Besides a hundred reserve regiments,” he said, “there are fifteen million able-bodied men with some training who could be drafted into the front line after a short period of intensive training. Eight millions have been trained for military warfare in the past three years and nearly six millions have been regimented into local militia It is planned to train million additional men in various parts of China. China will win this war.” JAPANESE REPRISAL WATER SUPPLY AT KULANGSU CUT OFF. DENIAL OF RESPONSIBILITY I FOR AGITATION. j (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 18. “The Times” Hong Kong correspondent says the Japanese have temporarily abandoned the attack on Ma-, cao. The Chinese are meeting a threatened Japanese landing at Swabue, where they are blockading the bays. The Japanese at Kulangsu have stopped the water supply as a reprisal for the refusal of their demand that they should be allowed to control the Settlement Police. The decline of the Chinese dollar is causing Chinese to go to Canton, owing to the high cost of living in Hong Kong, where the first Japanese English language paper has appeared. The Japanese Consul-General in Canton visited Hong Kong on an undisclosed mission. It is denied that the Japanese officially encourage the anti-British agitation. U.S.A. ACTION ADVOCATED BY SENATOR VANDENBERG. REVIVAL OF BRUSSELS CONFERENCE.

(Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 18.

Senator Vandenberg offered a resolution in the Senate requiring the United States to renounce the 1911 treaty of amity and commerce with Japan, and reconvening the Brussels Conference of 1937, which is now inirecess, to determine whether Japan is violating the Nine Power Treaty, pledging the territorial integrity of China.