CHINA’S HEROISM

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 5

CHINA’S HEROISM

RESISTANCE TO JAPANESE AGGRESSION INCREASING STRAIN PLACED ON INVADERS. REPLY TO TOKIO MENACES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 6. Commenting on a speech which has been made in London by the Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Wellington Koo, the “Daily Telegraph” says: _ “There has been an abundance of conjecture about the next move of Japan in pursuing her policy of calculated aggression. Menacing utterances in Tokio have been framed on the familiar Axis model of a war of nerves. Dr. Wellington Koo, however, dwells on the prosaic fact that Japan is engaged in a struggle in China which is destined to grow steadily more difficult for the invaders.

“The miracle of China’s resistance, so far from giving any sign of fading out, goes on without intermission. Here resolute fighting back has quite lecently achieved important successes. While the Japanese effort is at its climax, the Chinese mobilisation has not yet attained the maximum, and the increasing strain on Japan's limited resources will be far greater on account of the economic countermeasures of the anti-Axis Powers. “All honour to the Chinese people, who for four years have endured unflinchingly immeasurable loss and suffering, and who have more than deserved the utmost material support that can be extended to them by their friends of the-anti-Axis alliance.”