CHINESE PROBLEMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1943, Page 3

CHINESE PROBLEMS

ECONOMIC CRISIS PASSED SUCCESSFULLY r FOOD & CLOTHING ASSURED THIS YEAR. WAR AND OTHER ISSUES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CHUNGKING. September 13. China has successfully passed the economic crisis and will be able to survive the coming two years’ continued resistance to the Japanese, Gen-eral-issimo Chiang Kai-shek declared at the opening of the 11th plenary session of the Kuomintang Executive Committee. .He added that bountiful harvests and increased cotton production this year would assure sufficient food and clothing for the army and civilians. American monetary assistance was helping China uphold her currency, stabilise her prices and check inflation. The Generalissimo said that when war conditions permit the Kuomintang should hand over the Government to the people, introduce constitutional rule and assume an equal legal footing with the other parties. At a later stage, the committee decided to convene a national people’s congress within a year after the war, to adopt, a constitution and inaugurate a constitutional Chinese Government. CLASH REPORTED JAPANESE & CHINESE PUPPET TROOPS. AGAINST OUTER MONGOLIANS. CHUNGKING, September 13. The Central Chinese news agency reported that Japanese and Chinese puppet troops clashed with outer Mongolian forces at Kailinho, 40 miles inside the border of Outer Mongolia, 190 miles north of Paotow. Japanese and puppet troops from Inner Mongolia rushed to the scene The United Press of America points out that Marshal Stalin is pledged to defend outer Mongolia. _____ ______