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ARGUMENT AGAINST IT

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Dr. Kan Chia-hou, former Chinese Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs and a member of the People's Political Assembly, has sent a tele- gram on October 27, to the Assembly now hold- ing its second session at Chungking, against the reported movement for peace with Japan. The following is the gist of the telegram:-

Arguments for the immediate, Manchuria by stationing a threat conclusion of peace can be summed on its border, (2) cancelling the up in the following:

autonomy of Outer Mongolia which (1) The evacuation of Canton will then mobilize to defend its and the consequent fall of former Buzerain state, China, and Wuhan have brought about] (3) mobilizing the Red Army in a such a military situation that war against Japan. The Chang- not only our armies along the kufeng Incident was an instance of Kiukiang-Nanchang Line and the first step. The second, and the the Hunan-Kiangsi Line are third steps will be taken, according threatened with interception, to a recent Soviet revelation, when but also our main forces (a) the League of Nations will have along the Canton-Hankow invoked Article XVI of the Coven- Line will be faced with a ant against Japan, (b) Britain, pincer-attack, thus repeating France, and United States will have the sad stories of the re-consented to guarantee her Western treat from Shanghai when border, or (c) Japan will have at- the enemy landed at Kin San tacked the Soviet territory. At least Wei and the evacuation of one of these three contingencies, Hsuchow when he commenced [namely, the first, has taken place. to encircle the city from the South and the North. (2) The fall of Canton blocks China's exit to the sea and intercepts. her supply of arms and ammunition.

MUNICH AGREEMENT

anyone.

RUSSIA'S ALLIES

The sudden change in the system of Europe as a result of the Munich Agreement, with the consequent scrapping of the Franco-Soviet and Czecho-Soviet alliances, while ap-

(3) The Munich Agreement has parently indicating that Soviet as- Franco-Soviet sistance will not be forthcoming, scrapped the Alliance and isolated Soviet may possibly force Soviet Russia to Russia to such an extent that cast about for an ally, and Japan's she will not be able to help further penetration into China can result only in Soviet Russia's feel- (4) The Japanese militarists, ing all the more the imminence of with the mediation of Herr the Nippon menace. Rather than Hitler who is ever anxious abandoning China to the bosom of to preserve the fighting the Anti-Soviet Bloc, will not Rus- strength of his ally in the sia do something to prevent it if only for consideration of her own Anti-Comintern Bloc, are

security? now ready for peace for fear of further exhaustion.

Nor can Britain

afford to see

None of these arguments can be China fall into the bosom of Ja- pan: Britain has her interests in used to buttress the peace proposal. the Far East to protect against Ja-

Firstly, the fall of Canton (which

pan, which will be difficult to do was abandoned without fighting) in the event of China joining the and Wuhan (which was evacuated Fascist Bloc, just as now France with our forces intact) does

finds it difficult to ward off the mean the annihilation of our main German menace after abandoning forces. In a war of attrition, it is Czechoslovakia to Nazi domination not the loss of territory but the with the consequent defection of integrity of fighting strength that Poland and the virtual dissolution matters. China's fundamental of the Little Entente.

not

strategy in this war is to exhaust the enemy by ever widening the ARGUMENT FOR WAR : war area and engaging him from Fourthly, the argument that Hit- all sides. By going into the moun- ler is ready to mediate and that tainous regions of the Southwest, the Japanese militarists/are ready the enemy will face the insurmount-for peace for fear of further ex- able difficulty of maintaining com-haustion, far from being an argu- munication with the rear which, in ment for peace, is the very argu- a modern war, is a task that re-ment for continuing the war, be- have quires the mobilisation of several cause it is evident that we times the number of men in

the partly accomplished our object `of front-line trenches.

exhausting the enemy with the |prospect of reducing her to the Secondly, though deprived of the status of a second or third-rate power as compared with Europe exit to the sea, China still has to and American Powers, to the con- the Northwest and to the South sternation of both Herr Hitler and west highways on which military the Japanese militarists. Any supplies can be carried,

MILITARY SUPPLIES

to military authorities Weng breathing-space:

have now will give t

more arms and ammunition now to recuperate than last August when the Shang-vigour. hai War was commenced and we And there have enough bullets to last an- against pence other year-

two carding),

by peace

the chance ante-bellum

wo arguments pon. Japan's wity (1).

the Generalis

Thirdly, Soviet Russia's- move the eliminatión with regard to China and the War simo, and the (2) garrisoning of- consista în (1) Immobilizing a por- China's strategio tion of Japan's war strength

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