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By H. D. LIEM

A prominent Chinese journalist working in London

imports cripples her industries aggravated by the banning of and will aggravate the situation. petrol and lorrics on the Burma How long can she stand this ter. kond. The European War, the rific and continuous drain? collapse of France and the clos- ing of the Burma Road severely curtailed supplics of lorries, oil In spite of a million and and materials for the construc-

poured quarter troops

Into tion of new railways, radio China, Japan actually merely stations, telephone, telograph, controls strips of land and Hues canals, roads and transport ac- of communications, continunly cessories. They havo also shut harassed by marauding guerii- two of China's three main las. In the vast arcas she arterics connecting with the claims to have occupied, outer world; the Burms and the Chinese magistrates still hold Indo-China Road. The Russian their court, taxes are collected Road is long and slow. Trans- by Chinese Government officials, port of enormous quantities of and Chinese bank-notes enjoy a Russian supplies are carried by high premium over the Japan- camels and caravans, because, ese puppet paper money.

so to speak, a 3-ton lorry will To-day, 3,000,000 Chinese consume 1% tons of petrol regular troops are spread on all each way from point to point, fronts, and 6,000,000 In train while "camels do not cat oil." ing, Trained and untrained Third war aim: Democracy' irregulars and guerillas number, will be the inimedinte fruit of at a modest estimate, some 25 the Chinese people's war against to 30 millions, filling all crevices aggression and tyranny. During in the country and penetrating war-time, China has established deep behind the Japanese lines. her parliament, the People's What China needs are arms, Political Council, with repre- guns, tanks and planes-quickly sentatives drawn from all the and in plenty. When the ice is provinces, including Manchuria. thick enough to skute, a general Owing to severe bombings of offensive will be called to trap Chungking recently and "dim-

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the Japanese forces like a man culties in transport following in a room with fires bursting the closing of the Burma Road of every corner and the and bannings of petrol and lorries, the People's Congress Second war aim: National called for November 12 to adopt Y her alliance with the Chinese people's allegiance to Reconstruction. Free China, the National Constitution has General Chiang Kni shek. rich in soil and minerals, is been suspended although pre- Axis Powers Japan has Wang's puppet regime has been being intensively developed to paratory work still carries on. indicate news which je strictly copyright thrown off all pretence of specifically set up to make increase her WILF resources. cation in 1918. Such news as "non-involvement" in the Chinese fight Chinese and pay China will rise, like the phoenix

This is a people's war. Giving the United Prese Attoria fons, who tex War, and dared the United for the war against themselves, from its ashes, greater and

but cynically disguised under the stronger,

not exhausted back democratic rights to the serve all rights and forbid repubilrations. States to come on in the Anti-Red Crusade" and "Re- after the war.

The nation is people will make them realise Pacific. Whatever be the construction," and to register pledged not to repent the blun- what they are fighting for and reassurances, the Anti- the protests of the Powers der of the European nations secure their whole-hearted sup Comintern Pact has been re- whenever Japan treads on their after the last war, emerging port. They will be fighting not Although Britain has not stated hashed and the Soviet Union Corns in China. In fact, there from it thoroughly exhausted only for land, food and home. is not the remotest hope of with tens of millions unem- Rights of Men. They will learn but also for spiritual values, the alms beyond the self-placed in a vice with Italy Prince Konoye "breaking. China ployed and unrest reething the rudimenta of democracy evident object of self-preservation, hemming in at the Balkan down to her knees."

within their political and econo- with rifles by their side. And the subjugation of Germany's armed forces and the liberation of free

To-day the Chinese people mic system,

after victory they will have peoples which will automatically

learnt the responsibilities of a Contrary to Tokio's calcula- know what they are fighting for attend that happening, she has re-

good citizen. Contrast this tions, American public opinion and what the result of their vic- Leated with more and more assur- stiffens up. The joint Pacific tory will be. Under baptism of The people are rising up to with Japan's definite shift in Great tasks face war towards Fascism and ance that she intends to take the defence talk in Washington, is fire, they have been rebuilding the occasion. offensive by land, sea and air os being pushed vigorously for a new and greater nation; a them. Industries and mines are tyranny.

Free China. The Chinese people have as her supplies are sufficient, ward. Failing a climb down government of, for and by the being opened in

regarded themselves at there, war on the Chinese main- people; a national economy that Universities and schools spring never It is thought that her weapons land will engulf the Pacific. It will make China belong not to up like mushrooms. Students, war with the Japanese people, may be adequate late next your; will be foolish to ignore China a mere handful of men, but to writers and artists are achiev- but with Japanese military-

ing remarkable results in com- fascist imperialism. ԱԿ a positive factor in the the 450,000,000 Chinese. -ing power-by then that we shall be battles of Asia and the Pacific.

balingilliteracy, doing rural-sentiments-in-Japan-have-been- What are China's war aims? work, A.R.P., recruiting, propa- ruthlessly suppressed by their able to deal so effectively with the

The first is that the people must ganda and keeping up enemy o to make the postponement

the authorities and severe penalties be united to resist the enemy morale of the people high. imposed. China's victory will until victory is won. The united Sixty million refugees are being give the Japanese people that For more than three years the wil, energy, ingenuity and saeri- organised into Chinese Indus opportunity to emerge and Chinese people have suffered fice of China's millions have trial Co-operative units with govern themselves. Chinn cer- on worked wonders. Military tac production put on a guerilla tainly does not look forward to and withstocil Japanese

have slaught. They have shown their tica

been effectively basis to escape capture. annexations; she wants only fibre. Twice China's cupitals, adapted to China's strategical

We are, however, facing two the territories taken away from Operating from Nanking and Hankow, have geography. been captured. Yet each time Chungking, the war capital, we stubborn and gigantic problems her, to be let alone to restore victory, cluded Japan and still can choose the grounds on which in spite of stupendous effort: her house in order for there is Red Cross and relief; communi- more than plenty to do.. A under German deminailon so as to

recedes. Convinced of the final we want the enemy to fight us cations and transport. Large free, democratic and peace- split the defensive forces. Probably victory. China's will to resist China's size and Japan's econo

immeasurably increased mic weakness have been welded quantities of quinine, vaccines, loving China, side by side with parachule troops Janded under the has

anaesthetics, medical democratie Japan, will be the into the formula, "buy time with serum, protection of this air force will first with time.

Time wears Japan supplies and surgical instru- stabilising forces of peace in To-day, the military situation space."

ments and hospitals are wanted, the Pacille as a positive contri- reinforcements can arrive, while the is a stalemate. Japanese forces down, but increases China's re- Transport in Free Chinn being bution towards a permanent preponderance of our naval strength can neither remain with com-

dependent almost exclusively on world peace when aggression

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certainly they will be of such strik-

at an offensive of no vital concern

to our own safety.

The co-ordination of our air arm

achieved that perfection

with land and sea forces will have essential

to a successful invasion of the con-

Under the Distinguished Patronage of HE., the Acting Governor. linent by next year while the num- bers of our aircraft will be such that diversluns can be kept up at different points along the huge coastline now

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will assure the retention of this area fort nor withdraw without loss Japan is spending at least roads, the situation has been has been uprooted and crushed. from sen attack or cover the with- of face. Increased battering £1,000,000 a day. Her economic drawal of the troops while another failed to break the deadlock. structure is top-heavy, her gold attack is being made elsewhere. Japanese peace offers are re- reserves depleted considerably, FUNNY SIDE UP

Since alreraft now play such a garded as thickly sugar-coated cost of living rising and nationa Kreat part in warfare it will be poison. The puppat Wang debt piling up. The claim of necessary to devise better protection | Ching-wei failed to divert the war materials over raw material| for the troops from bombing and machine-gunning than exists at present. Nevertheless the best pro- tection against such attack Hes in beating the enteny in the air and that is why Britain is placing such emphasis on the need for more and more aeroplanes of all types.

Incidentally it is because Germany herself is convinced that we do in- tend to; lake the offensive as soon as we are in a position to do so that the Luftwaffe is trying desperately to stem our production at home while

saving Its own machines by refrain-

ing from daylight raids,.

Our unhappy frienda in Great Britain are taking terrine punish ment and the last will be in their ability to continue to take it-for several norc months without linching. It would be untimely to go further into the trials that await them while we all here on the edge of our little volcano without being able to do more than pray for them

and

Feuchtwanger, Dressed

As Woman, Eludes Nazis

Lion Feuchtwanger, the German writer, landed recently in New York from an. American ship. Ho looked pale and tired and had a strange story, to tell.

He was in France when the

the world. Certainly wo shall have Nazis arrived, was arrested and to insist on International army of interned in a concentration; occupation for several years while we camp and was given up for lost. prevent the growing generation from being taught that there is no such

Late in July, Feuchtwange

and

thing as a God of love; that all Jews 200 other prisoners were, taking a are hateful; that Slavs were made bath in a river near Nimes when a to slave for the Herren class; and car drove up and "an American that the entire cultural and practical friend" signalled to him. aspirations of a notion can be suc cessfully represented by one man-a dictator.

Wearing only a pair of swimming trunks, Feuchtwanger jumped into the The load of hate that Hitler has car and as it drove away changed into. women's clothes which the American already dug for German shoulders to had brought for him. to buy them few aircraft. carry is a legacy that only time

Neutral observers are still snying and that not a generation or two of After hiding in a town in South- that the grit of the civilians in the penco will lighten. That hale has East France for six weeks he man-

its uses now in that it spurs the de-aged to get aboard ship. tenders of freedom to go on because Ile revealed that Heinrich Mann there is no rond back. It will have and Franz Werfel have also escaped Its further uses In the not too distant and are bound for New York. future when the German people Feuchtwanger's helpers were a themselves, will curse the day when number of Americans who have they yielded their destinies to the formed a "Scarlet Pimpernel" style of ignoble and treacherous figure who, life-saving chain for assisting political

refugees from France. now represents them.

British Isles has shown itself in the suporb and unflinching morale of all. After the war wo thail come to the vexed question of what to do with tho. Germans. A lot will depend on the reactions of the Germons them- selves; whether they feel they have had enough of Hitlerism or whether they still feel an urge to conquer

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