CHINA'S UNITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 113, 14 May 1936, Page 9

CHINA'S UNITY.

NATION AWAKENING. STAND AGAINST JAPAN -SEEN. "MILITARISTS ARE MAD MEN." (From Our Own Correspondent.) SAN" FRANCISCO, April 22. "China is more unified than ever before, and everybody now realises that the only people who can save China arc the Chinese," Dr. .Tames MeClure Henry, lifelong resident of China, missionary and educator, said in an address in the Los Angeles University Club.

Dr. Henry is provost of Liiignan] University, Canton, and knows the! South China situation thoroughly and from a first-hand survey of many years' standing. Only recently lie took a trip' through the North. | "The Cantonese Government is closer to tlio central government than ever before, and I found the northern pro-1 vinees even less autonomous than Can- i ton," lie said. "There is an incredible resentment among the Chinese in all parts against the Japanese. The central Government has the problem of keeping i this in check and at the same time) warding off the Japanese. | "The day is not far off when tliei Chinese will take a strong stand! against the Japanese. They now look j at Japanese militarists as mad men, and j don't know where .they will strike next. | We certainly can say that the Chinese can take it." Military training is compulsory all over China, Dr. Henry reported. The aeroplane is to be the chief weapon in the oncoming conflict with the Japanese. he thinks, and aviation development is important. The central Government has 000 aeroplanes suitable for military purposes, aside from others in service in other parts of China. There are seven schools of aviation in China, and three aeroplane factories, he said. The total motor road development amounts to 50,tM) miles. One striking change in recent years, Dr. Henry said, is in the earnestness with which Chinese ,officials go about their business. At one time, he recalled, an official might not be found in his office in the morning, and often not! until iate in the afternoon. 'Now it is i to be assumed that he will keep the regular office hours of a business man. Efficiency has been increased all alongi the line, he added, together with the! marked unification in government. I