THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 13, 1938.
Canton Might Fall But The Cost Would Be Heavy
Canton, To-day.
“Let them come, we are ready for them!” de- clared Mayor Tsang Yang-fu of Canton yesterday, in an interview concerning the possibility of a Jap- anese invasion of the Kwangtung capital.
The interview took place in one of the pictures- que Municipal buildings of Canton, whose rich or- namentation is now hidden beneath a drab battle- ship grey.
Asked whether he was opti-, mistic or otherwise, the Mayor declared that the Cantonese would welcome an opportunity to prove their determination to resist an invasion of their soil. He was confident that the Jap- anese, should they carry out the much-heralded invasion of the South, would encounter great difficulties in breaking through the defences of the Province, al- though admitting that an occu- pation of Canton was not al- together impossible.
Such an occupation, however, would cost the invader verý dearly.
"The question is not how many Japanese soldiers would be needed to take Canton, but how many would be able to leave again," was one of:
In the Mayor's pungent remarks. this connection, he stated that not only the help of the soldiery, but that of the civilian population, in- cluding the women, would be en- listed.
PITY NOT HATE Mayor Tsang remarked that a wrong impression had been created regarding the Chinese attitude to- wards the Japanese, which was one of pity rather than hate for it was obvious that the Japanese were be ing carried away by their barbarian instincts and had embarked upon a campaign that could have only the most dire results for them in view of China's vast terrain and unlimit- ed sources of strength.
Declaring that the Japanese in- vasion had accelerated the work of unification so successfully begun by the late Leader, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, and carried on dynamically by the Generalissimo and his supporters, the Mayor alluded to the fact that China, in the course of her 2,000 years' history had passed through -varying stages-of-nationalism—-and-
patriotism.
"We are therefore-witnessing-in- China to-day the reawakening of a natonal consciousness that has mere-
ly lain dormant China had been
willing to live in peace and amity with her neighbours, regarding all within the Four Seas? as brothers, but had been rudely disillusioned by the continual aggressions of the past few decades.
ton,
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ŠOVIET LEADERS
AND FAR EAST
London, To-day.
Important consultations on the. policy to be adopted by the Soviet Union towards the Far Eastern conflict will shortly take place be tween Stalin and Red army lead- ers according to a Moscow mes- sage to the "Daily Herald".
In addition to the Soviet War Minister, Marshal, Voroshiloff, and his deputy, Marshal Yegeroff, the conference will be attended by Marshal Bluecher, Commander-in- Chief of the Red army in the Fară: East. Trans-Ocean.
BASQUE REFUGEE CHILDREN
London, To-day. Although some five hunded of the che Basque refugee children have now returned to Spain, between two and three thousand remain under care of the Basque Children's Re lief Committee which has just made another appeal to the public
for funds to enable it to maintain_the whom refugee children, many of have lost, one or both parents in the Spanish civil war, until satis- factory. conditions for their repa triation are available. British Wireless.
TWO JAPANESE GUNBOATS SUNK
London, To-day.
The Chinese Embassy in Lon- don
announces that Chinese planes bombed and sank two Ja- panese gunboats which steaming up the Yangtse from Wuhu.-Reuter
ANTON RAID
ALARM
Carton, 10 a.m. To-day, The usual morning air raid alarm is on at present.
Three- Japanese planes were sighted over Tongkawan, - but later news from Canton-Kow- loon Railway officials states that the raders have not visited the Railway this morning.-Reuter. struction of some of her greatest Canton
limit to the frequency
ina's sharing their fate, the Mayor repli- removals of her capital according to ed that China would rebuild the de- the dictates of necessity, so there is vastated areas, and possessed the no limit to the means of obtaining means to do so, In this she contact with the outside world. by rely
as in the Lake of the loss
king. Just as there might be no cities, and the possibility
could
upon the wholehearted-as- sistance of the large Chinese com- From A Special munities abroad.
Questioned garding the effect op the country as a whole the de- Correspondent.
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