NEAR EXHAUSTION

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 4

NEAR EXHAUSTION

STRENGTH OF JAPAN CHINESE CONSUL'S CLAIM TOO WEAK TO MAKE WAR APPEAL FOR OPEN STAND (By Telegrapn Press Association) WELLINGTON, Friday The opinion mat Japan was unlikely to euitr war wnn An lam or me united mates was expressed by Mr r eng Wang, wmnese uonsuiue'aerai in New Zealand, wnen speaking at Cnniese national ceiemations in Wellington yesterday, marking the 2Btn anniversary ot uie nepuouc ot Cmna. "(jur entmy nas now been brought near the point ot exhaustion, it* collapse is eminent,” ne declared. "Auer our war ‘resistance has been gomg on tor more tnan three years we reel immeasurably heartened at the success we nave so tar acnieved by our stout resistance. Our enemy has been steadily drained ot military .economic strengtn. The war is costing it more tnan the United States spent at tne height or the World War. “Japan would have already taken advantage of the European war by invading other nations in tne Pacific nad China not resisted the invader (or the last three years,” Mr Peng Wang continued, “but our enemy today, in spile ol its threats, is too powerless to make war on any other nation. “Farsighted statesmen and intelligent people will not tail to be impressed ay the statement made recently by Marshal Chiang Kai Shek that China, while believing trom the very beginning that her resistance i was directly aimed at retaining her own freedom, was indirectly working tor the preservation ol the rights, interests and future security ot others. "We look specially,” said Mr Feng Wang, “to those nations intimately bound up with Pacific affairs to act immediately. Let them openly take a stand and loyally co-operate in checking Japanese aggression.”