THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 10, 1989.
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FENG YU-HSIANG VIEWS WAR SITUATION WITH HIGH OPTIMISM
Chungking, To-day.
Japan may have better military equipment and her air-force may be superior to China's, but great- er underlying principles are involved than mere military equipment and therefore we may soon expect a basic change in the situation, states General Feng Yu-hsiang, Vice-Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission, who is second only to General Chiang Kai-shek' as a Chinese Military leader.
This statement was made by General Feng, who is also known as the "Christian General," in an exclusive interview granted to Herr Hans Mel- chers, Trans-Ocean's general manager for China, who recently passed through Hong Kong from Shanghai.
China is still training her arm-clared that the whole of China's ies and re-organizing her resources, military forces was receiving ex- he said, but the time, will soon haustive military training.
for a great counter-thrust, and important developments may then be expected..
come
Special key-units had been formed and distributed among other units in order to create the same standard Indications pointing the way throughout the army. All-training which these developments will take was being done only by Chinese are given by recent Japanese re-officers.
versals in north-western Hupeh, Sufficient equipment was avail- where in the Tsaoyang-Hsianyang- able. Tangho area, the Japanese advan- ced considerably from their base but were then forced back no less than 250 kilometres, losing some 20,000 men, as well as large quan- tities of equipment.
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Asked which of the Chinese troops he considered to be the best, Gen- eral Feng replied they were those from the Ichang district in Hupeh province, as well as those from. Szechuen, Hunan, Kwangsi, Kwang- all showed an exceptionally high tung and Kweichow provinces, who efficiency and fighting spirit.
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CHANGES COMING General, who is one of the most Concluding, the veteran Chinese popular and acclaimed of the Chin- rest assured that the time was not ese leaders, declared that one could
far off when great changes coming and China would re-assert her sovereignty, so that all sacri- fices would not have been in vain.
SHANSI LOSSES Another pointer towards the fu- ture was given in Shansi Province, in the Chungtiaoshang triangular area, where Japanese forces have so far attacked nine times with- out success, resulting in from 500 to 1,500 corpses being transported daily along the Paotingfu railway, As regards future developments, General Feng Yu-hsiang added that the Chinese authorities had ceived reliable information from Japan that some 5,000 intellectuals of the highest classes have been The Chinese people were cop- rigorously cross-examined, nearly ident of this and therefore were 400 being subsequently imprisoned willing of this and therefore con- for having expressed the convic- cess of the end of the present con- tion that the war should be ended | flict-Trans-Ocean...
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JAPANESE TIRED OF WAR AIRCRAFT AS
There were also other indica
tions that the Japanese people were
tired of war, this applying, not, CONVOYS IN
only to the civilian population but also to the military forces, includ-. ing high officers.
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EVENT OF WAR
London, To-day.
were
Writing in the "Daily Telegraph," Mr. Hector Bywater, the
As regards the Japanese forces, it is reported from various points. that Japanese soldiers have been fratemizing to a large degree, with the Chinese population, many Ja panese soldiers swearing blood, brothership with aged Chinese, ceremoniously drawing the sign of correspondent of the paper, says death with a circle around it, which denotes that they will dies in Ching and do not wish to return to Japan NEW-ARMIES
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