THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 13, 1939:
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BRITAIN'S NORTH CHINA DECISION
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London, To-day.
The War Office announces that it has been decided for reasons of military convenience arising from the conflict in Europe to maintain in North China only effectives necessary to protect property and maintain order.
The decision has been notified to the various governments who equally main- tain garrisons in China under the 1901 Protocol.-Reuter.
CONTRADICTIONS IN THE POLICY OF JAPAN: VIGOROUS CHIANG KAI-SHEK SPEECH
Chungking, To-day.
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" AS THE SINO-JAPANESE war goes on, the inher- ent contradiction in Japan's national policy is becoming more and more evident,” declared General Chiang Kai-shek in addressing the sixth plenary session of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang yesterday. The session opened at 9 a.m. when the Generalis- simo reviewed the last nine months of the Sino- Japanese hostilities.
A PARADOX
WILL NOT BE DUPED
"Furthermore, China, after two years of war experience, is
not
caught unprepared both physically
and phsychologically."
Referring to the third Powers, General Chiang said: "I am con-
HE SAYS BRITAIN WILL WIN IN AIR
"The war will be, won or lost in the air, and judging by the material we are asked to train,, it will be won by Great Britain," declared Air Commodore A. C. Critchley, the well- known sportsman.
Air Commodore Critchley is in charge of preliminary training in the. R.A.F. He told Press representatives in a tour of an initial training centre "somewhere on the coast" that he was engaged in similar work during the last war.
"The type of youngster we are asked to train now is 50 per cent. better than those we were asked to handle in the last war," he said.
"Britain will win this war hands down by virtue of the young material which is coming forward now. We have the finest material to train that one could possibly find."
When he was asked how many airman could be turned out, he said:
"We could produce a minimum of
dent that the Powers friendly to us, in the interest of all concerned, will asked, and his reply was, "Till the
not be duped by Japan into sponsor- ing either directly or indirectly her cause of aggression.
CHINA'S POLICY
"Since the Mukden Incident foreign policy has been four points:-
based
"Firstly, to resist aggression
to protect our territorial ministrative integrity.
and
+
our
on
and ad-
"Secondly, to uphold the valid. ity of International conventions, and especially that of the Nine. Power Pact and the League Covenant against war. "Thirdly, to refuse
He assured
leaders party
that "For the time being Japan, of Japan's offensive in the military, poli- course, desires Soviet Russia's friend- tical and economic fields, in "her des- ship. perate attempt to conquer China, is every day becoming more, doomed to failure."
After his recent
personal in- spection tour of the front, the Generalissimo continued, he was convinced that "ultimate victory for the Chinese is becoming in- creasingly assured." As the war goes
on, he said, the inherent contradiction in Japan's national policy was becoming more and more evident from the recent reshuffling of her Cabinet and her intention to take the greatest pos- sible advantage of the European war by keeping out of it was made clear.
"If she is sincere, however, why is she compelling Wang Ching-wei to sign the Anti-Comintern Pact and designate North China and
Inner Mongolia as special areas under her any anti-Communist pact, and influence?
JAPAN'S AIMS
"Even to-day, while hoping for closer relations with Germany, she is nevertheless urging Germany to pro- secute the Anti-Comintern Pact, a task, which the Berlin
government can no longer undertake.
JAPANESE GESTURES
adhesion
to
"Fourthly, to maintain absolute dependence in diplomacy.
in-
3,000 pilots a month." "How long can you keep up that rate?" he was
end of any war that the enemy could fight."
He added that there was a large number of Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders and South Africans in the Air Force, and he added, "If we opened the floodgates to-morrow we should have 3,000 wishing to enter. Judging by the last war, they make the finest pilots in the world." Talking films play a big part in training routine. Subjects of these films include theory of flight, meteo- rology, wireless, fog airmanship, gun- nery, deck landings and recognition of enemy aircraft.
Recreation is another important part of the course and there are all types of games.
At the centre visited those pupils eager to learn something about box-
boxing training there is under the ouring are particularly fortunate for the
supervision of Sergeant Len Harvey and Corporal Eddie Phillips.
"The final fixed alm in all efforts is to secure national emancipa- lion and equality.
CAUSE OF WORLD "After two years and four months of determined struggle we "To put the whole thing in a nut-all the more that our cause is also believe shell, Japan's friendly gestures, and the cause of the world and human- her pledge of neutrality regarding the ity, and that Japan has proved her- Japan's first immediate object was European war, are all as deceptive self to be a menace not only in the to establish the so-called new central
as her encroachment on the vital in- Far East but also in the whole world. government under Wang Ching-weiterests of the Western nations in (deposed deputy Executive of the China, attempting to weaken
"Though the "foreign policy Kuomintang); her second goal was to positions in the world and facilitat- its own interests, we trust neverthe- every country is governed mainly by ing her fixed scheme of world con- less that no nation will be induced quest.
to forfeit its permanent interests through a temporary rapprochement with the common enemy.
reconcile third Powers.
in
In order to justify before her people the atupendous expendi-
In
and materials Japan might eventually put up a third puppet regime.
ture China,
men
That, however,
tribute
would not con-
of towards a solution the controversy between China
and
Japan.
CHINA'S QUAGMIRE
On the contrary, it would only complicate the existing situation and would sink her deeper into China's quagmire.
In fact, if the bogus govern- ments of Paiping and Nanking had so far failed to relieve the unprecedented strain under which she was labouring, how could a third puppet regime do better?
If she herself had not subdued China with her superior military force in two years and four months of war, how could any political trick Induce China to submission in the future?
BLACKMAILING
"Nor will Japan's attempt to re- concile third Powers prove success- ful under present circumstances.
"She may temporarily call off her vehement campaign against Britain and France, but her constant black- mailing of them will not be mis. understood.
"Admiral Nomura Indeed han' been courting America's favouri but as long as Japan is bant on murdering: the - Nina: Power Treaty and the principle of the open door, the American govern- ́ment and people will not be de- calved by sugar-coated words.
their
"Indeed, it is fortunate for US that the European conflict broke out only last September and not two years ago.
"Now that Japan is so exhausted and tied down to her grim fate in China, she can never harass the world any more.
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JAPAN ON THE WHEEL "Events have proved that every mistake Japan makes leads her to a fresh defeat and drags her into а further mistake and thus to a grea-
New Zealand is making a special effort to supply the R.A.F. with trained pilots and other flying 'per-" doing. sonnel, besides what she is already
ter defeat.
"This vicious circle can be clos- ed only "when she makes up her -mind to relinqülah' her dream of conquest and realises that only a free and prosperous China guarantee her own prosperity and freedom.
can
"The present war is suicidal in that it destroys the structure and function of constitutional
govern- ment, on which the stability of the State depends, and releases all the unruly forces successfully brought under control by the sweat and toll of several generations."--Reuter.
"Alice where art thou?” One of the bunch of this detachment of Tommise,
In a French village for their midday meal, has named the leading transport on
for the front, exhibiting all the signs of cheerfulness, these boys will not bes that lies ahead of them has to be done. (By Alr Mall Famed by
mad