POOL OF RESOURCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1941, Page 5

POOL OF RESOURCES

ENGLISH=SPEAK!NG NATIONS & CHINA URGED BY MR QUO TAI-CHI. WITH REFUSAL OF SUPPLIES TO JAPAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright! LONDON, May 2. The Chinese Foreign .Minister designate, Air Quo Taichi, at a dinner in his honour in New York, called for Hie pooling of all the economic and natural resources of America, Britain, and China in a threefold combination which would defeat the totalitarian Powers.

Mr Quo pleaded with the United States to cease to supply Japan with war materials, particularly oil. which enabled Japanese airmen to kill women and children and destroy homes and factories. “China is determined to defend the Pacific front until final democratic victory,” said the retiring Foreign Minister, Mr Wang Chung-hui. to Mr James Roosevelt, who was his guest of honour at a Government dinner in Chungking. Mr Roosevelt, replying, said his visit had confirmed his belief in China’s greatness. THE SHANGHAI COUNCIL. The new provisional council which is to govern the Shanghai International Settlement held its first meeting yesterday and unanimously elected Mr J. H. Liddell, a British subject born in China, as its chairman, and a Japanese. Mr I. Okamoto, as vice-chair-man. There was a last-minute sensation when it was learned that one of the two Chinese supporters of the Chungking Government who had been given seats on the council had been kidnapped by Wang Ching-wei elements and then released just in time to attend the meeting. He is Mr L. T. Yuan, a 65-year-old veteran of the Government of the Shanghai settlement. The fact that he was released and attended the meeting has given rise to rumours that he was forced over to the Wang Ching-wei side. The only other pro-Chungking Chinese on the council failed to attend the meeting. The Japanese in Shanghai announced that army forces have landed and occupied Kiatze Harbour, in southeastern Kwantung.