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it could only be a question of a struggle to the last gasp with- out turning round half way to search for a compromise peace. It is only by going through the greatest sufferings and by making the greatest sacrifices that the Chinese people can hope for a final victory.
"The temporary reverses will not shake our will to continued resistance. The extension of the theatre of operations has been awaited for a long time. China has vast territories, enormous population and rich resources, and the greater the field of battle the more divided will be the fighting powers of the Japanese. The enemy must be made to fight in a manner favourable to Chinese strategy. Consequently engagements will not be restricted, as they were at Shanghai and Nanking, but the Chinese forces will enjoy complete initiative and full liberty of action. The nation must launch attacks everywhere against the Japanese.
"I must repeat that China's war of resistance is not like an ordinary war between two countries fighting for domination but our war is a revolutionary war fought for national liberty. Such a war could never be limited or handicapped by time or space, by money or by economic questions, by communications, by poison gases or by high explosives, by inferiority in armaments or by the weight of sacrifice. There will be no end until the final victory.
"In reality, our war of resistance is not handicapped. Our war material has been ready for a long time and is actually more than sufficient to confront the situation: there is no danger that international communications will be cut. It has been proved that the more barbarous the aggression the stronger is our will to resistance and that the heavier the sacrifices the more rapid our power of recuperation.
THE NATION IS BEHIND
CHIANG-KAI-SHEK
THE CO-OPERATION OF CHINGHAI
Chungking. 15 November. The population of the province of Chinghai, in the extreme west of China, between Kansu and Sinkiang, supports unreservedly Chiang Kai-shek, the only leader capable of guiding the nation through the present crisis. Such was the gist of the interview given to the Central News Agency by Mr. Ah Fu-shan, one of the four representatives of Chinghai who were present in Chungking, on an official mission to the central authorities.
Mr. Ah declared that the whole population of Chinghai, the Chinese as well as the Mongols and Moslems, were tenaciously supporting the war against Japan, because they were convinced that should China lose its independence, Mongolia and Tibet would lose theirs also.
The people of chinghai were enthusiastically performing their war service. Thus during the national campaign for donations of gold to the state, the people of Chinghai amassed