POSITION OF CHINA
RESISTANCE WEAKENING Philadelphia, Feb. 1. Chinese resistance • ,;o Japanese aggression is ; sollapse because of the Allies' failure to send promised food and munitions, said Madame Wellington Koo, wife of Dr. Wellington Koo, Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain, in a speech. China was nearer collapse on the economic front than at any time during the war. "If the Chinese Government is forced to tioko::.! e peace it would rot he because ues soldk.rs shirked fighting," she said. "We have fought practically without guns, planes and ammunition. It will he because the people are ravaged by sickness and ar.e starving in the s L reets. Hope is gone, and with i the spirit to carry en."
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13063, 4 February 1943, Page 5
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