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CHINA MAIL
DOUBLE TENTH SUPPLEMENT
China's National Day 1938
[ISTORY is rarely made clear to contem-
HISTORY is there are still many factors
in China's determined war of resistance to Japanese militaristic ambition and outrage which remain obscure. This much is clear, however, as the second Double Tenth Anniver- . sary celebration since the outbreak of hostilit- ies comes round: China can look back upon the past twelve months with pardonable pride and into the future with well-based confidence. There will be no elaborate ceremonial in cele- bration of the National Day. The earnest business of the moment precludes costly festi- val. In heart and mind, however, there is room' - for deep satisfaction. Never before since the Foundation of the Republic could it be said with so much truth that Dr. Sun Yat-sen's dream of a unified China, was so genuinely real and effective. At no time has it been more certain than to-day that Japan's policy of con- quest in China is doomed to failure, just as the policy which immediately preceded it, the policy of "peaceful disruption," failed.
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In the great test of the past fifteen months, the Chinese Government has proved too strong to destroy and the Chinese people too much awakened to deceive. Any chance the Japanese might have had has been ruined by their politi-
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cal stupidity and still more by the atrocities which have marked the progress of their arm ies. The only result has been to rouse the whole nation to united resistance, creating a new spirit in China. By now the Japanese would probably admit their failure, but would not confess defeat. They have undertaken the far greater task of universal conquest. They are determined to carry the war into every pro- vince, fi
first subdue the whole nation with bombs and bullets and then to rule it with bayonets. The ruthless terrorism which con- tradicted their original policy has been made an essential part of the new policy. They are ready to kill the fighting men, to terrorise the civilians, to lay waste the cities, to destroy the means of production, to ruin the country in or- der to fulfil a vain ambition. For that ambi- tion cannot be achieved. Before leaving China the leader of the German military mission stat- ed that in his opinion China was bound to win. in the end, and that opinion is now shared by almost all foreign observers. Japan has neither the men nor the money to conquer China in a ten years' war such as that suggested by General Ugaki. China's endurance, stoicism, heroism are merits too powerful for the mad- man of Asia.
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