FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 227, 8 July 1941, Page 3

FIFTH ANNIVERSARY.

OUTBREAK OF WAR IN CHINA. (P.A.) WELLINGTON, July 7. Mr Wang Fong (Consul-General for China in Now Zealand), addressing a gathering, of Chinese, said that to day was the beginning of the fifth year of a war of resistance against the. aggression of .Tnpnmese militarism. Ho reminded the meeting, which was in the Chinese Association rooms, that before a pence order could he re-established in Asia, tlie conflict in Europe had broken out, and New Zealand was a belligerent country. He said that lie felt sure that the two peoples were nearer to each other than ever before in thought, ideals and spirit. China’s resistance, was part of the world’s general resistance against aggression. China had at least crippled the might of Japan so that .Japan could not fulfil the programme long ago revealed in the notorious Tanaka Memorandum for securing the hegemony of Asia and the domination of the whole Pacific.

“We must continue our struggle until aggression is ended for once and for all,” he said. “Now let us look forward to the clay when our two nations. British and Chinese, may lead the way to world democracy anti a new international order.”