NOT SO TOUGH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 4

NOT SO TOUGH

AS SOME PEOPLE THINK JAPAN WILL SURRENDER. IN OPINION OF CHINESE MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Daj r , 11.0 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 10. Japan will surrender unconditionally by Christmas, 1944, or in the following summer at the very latest, declared Dr. Hsia, chief’ Western Hemisphere representative of the Chinese Ministry of Information, interviewed by the “Christian Science Monitor.” He gave as his reasons for this assertion, firstly, that Japan is not as tough as some people think; secondly, that Japan can be beaten to a point of unconditional surrender without. land invasions of her home islands; thirdly, that the Japanese Fleet must be divided immediately into three parts for defence, and that the first part which meets the British Fleet in the Indian Ocean or the United States Fleet .in the Pacific will be smashed, resulting in a crumbling of Japanese morale.. Dr. Hsia added that China believes in the doctrine of the unconditional surrender of the Japanese, but does not believe that the Japanese should be exterminated. He said civilised methods must be used to persuade oi compel the Japanese to adopt bettei ways of international living.