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shaken, Hankow, if not the des- tined Moscow of this new Napo- leonic ambition, is at least on the way. Balked in North Ho nan by the Yellow River floods, every effort is now concentrated on the drive along the Yangtse, and the Chinese Fourth Army

Hong Kong, Thursday, July 7, 1938. has already shown clearly that

TWELVE MONTHS

AFTER

if the Chinese High Command decides to stand and do battle, the preliminary comparisons of Hankow with Verdun may not be so very far astray. Wisely, the A year ago to-day, deliberately Government is doing its best to from and confident, certain that a evacuate as many civilians

Hankow as possible, in order that swift campaign, virtually blood- it may not be hampered in resis- less,- would give them their pri-tance. That is a good sign, for mary objectives within three it is an inspiriting indication of determination to inflict heavy months at the outside, the Japan-damage on the Japanese main ese Army commenced their way army before Hankow is surren- is undoubtedly the hope of twelve months that have since hoped when they drove to Nan- elapsed, China has endured a king-that with the occupation year of terrible agony, her prin- of Hankow, Chiang Kai-shek's cipal cities have been sacked and authority will collapse. If that represents the Japanese reason raped or laid in ruins by airmen for this further wild fling, noth- that they obeying orders of particular ing is more certain venom, and enormous areas of will find themselves fighting in the heart of China in the dead China's countryside have been

of winter. In so doing, they will Analysis nevertheless become involved in just what reveals that.not a single Japanese they are straining to avoid. The expectation has been satisfac-Japanese campaign in China has throughout, for all its appear- torily fulfilled, that the Chinese ance of military success, been a military forces opposed to them piling of error upon error,___all are immeasurably more efficient developing from their failure to

IS realise that China

not one and effective than they were theatre of war but a dozen, so when hostilities broke out, that

isolated, so nearly impregnable, the entire national sentiment is that the loss of one of them now rallied to a desperate com-

of aggression in China. In the dered. Japanese--as they .

overrun.

;

general problem. Up to th

now,

mon cause, so much so that the settles little or nothing most significent news of the past strategic points have been de few days has been the intimation fended with extreme gallantry

several that Peiping's gates,

by half-armed and more or less hundred miles from the fighting untrained men. They have died zodes, have been closed on this but they have achieved their anniversary against fears of an purpose in delaying progress. attack by Chinese guerilla for The war as it might be surveyed

to-day, however, gives

ces.

mis- China's year ago

Within the last week, fighting taken impression has occurred at- Lukouchiao, growing strength. where the first shots of the war China was caught without an were fired on July 7, 1937. The efficient fighting force. Fighting six divisions originally thought for its life, first around Shang- to be sufficient for the campaign hai and then in Shantung, the by the Japanese militarists has country has contrived to increase increased to thirty-six divisions the war potential of its forces a and is still insufficient. Casualties hundredfold, and to reconstruct remain a Japanese secret, but the government on lines that re- 300,000 in all branches and arms presents a very real and impor- of the Japanese Services is be-tant united people's front. Time lieved by competent observers continues on China's side. One to be a moderate estimate, year is a moment of time in her Japan's economy has been so history. It remains for her only severely strained that the eve to preserve the national unity of the anniversary was marked and that every Japanese bomb by an open confession of weak-helps to solidify to afford the ness, the issue of special war fullest support for those engag-, currency." At this cost, Japan ed in the ubiquitious guerilla at- has roved far and wide over tacks so destructive of Japanese several Chinese provinces, but self-assurance, and to organise not even Tokyo would profess and continue to organise that such control as is exercised whole country for total defence, extends for more than a mile or and whether it happens

да

the

80 either side of the main lines manner of Waterloo hote

communication or beyond a treat from Moscow, Japan-will

of the principal strategic live to regret this past year

aggression and terror.