CHIANG KAI-SHEK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1942, Page 3

CHIANG KAI-SHEK

VISIT TO NORTHWEST FRONTIER TRIBES PRESENT ADDRESS OF WELCOME. HOPES OF FREEING WORLD FROM TYRANTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 'l4. General Chiang Kai-shek arrived at Lahore today. He was received by the Governor and the Premier of the Punjab and the military commander of Lahore. General Chiang Kai-shek, in the course of a visit to the defences of Khyber Pass on the north-west frontier, was presented with an address of welcome by the tribes there, states a Peshawar Press message. “We have heard of your victories against the Japanese,” said the address. “We hope that they are the forerunners of many victories to come. Despite minor reverses, we are quite confident of ultimate victory for the Allies and the world will be freed from tyrants.” The Generalissimo replied: “I hope you will join the Allied cause so that freedom can be brought to the world, freedom from aggression. ’ Madame Chiang Kai-shek, in an address to women at New Delhi, said the Japanese had captured Chinese children and used them for blood transfusions They had also sent boatloads of Chinese children to Japan, where they were trained for espionage. Chinese labourers employed by the Japanese had received injections of opium or heroin as part payment.