AERIAL RAIDS ON TOKYO

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22198, 15 September 1937, Page 9

AERIAL RAIDS ON TOKYO

POSSIBILITIES BEING CONSIDERED ! INFORMATION RECEIVED , | IN DUNEDIN i RUSSIA NOT TO HE DRAGGED j INTO CONFLICT j [THE I'RKSS Special Service.] ! DUNEDIN, September 14. The Chinese residents of Dunedin are quietly confident as to the outcome of the struggle now proceeding in the Far East, and their attitude is summed up in the words of one of them that "China is bound to triumph eventually." The Otago Chinese Association is being kept fully informed of the daily happenings on the battlefront. Each day it receives a report from the Chinese Government, sent through the Chief Consul for New Zealand at Wellington. The association asked that the news be unbiased, for it wished to know everything that occurred, whether the Chinese won or lost various enj gagements. A result has been that I full details of the position have been received by the Chinese residents in Dunedin. The Chinese Government declines offers from its subjects in New Zealand to return home to fight, as it has an abundance of "man power." Instead, it asked its people overseas to have entire confidence in China's ultimate success in the present war. It might lose at the start, but there would be no doubt as to the outcome. China would never be vanquished by the Japanese. The possibility of the Chinese Government launching an aerial attack on Tokyo and other Japanese cities was mentioned to-day when a reporter was discussing the position v/ith a prominent member of the local Chinese Association. The reply was that the association had inquired why China should not send an air fleet to bomb Japanese cities, and the answer had been received that the Government was giving the matter full attention. China's air force was growing rapidly, and even faster progress would be made very soon. Bombing raids could, and probably would, be carried out, and they would hara c Japan at home in the way that she was doing to China. "What alliance exists between Russia and China," was another question the Chinese Government was asked. The reply was reassuring to the peoples of other, lands "China has asked other nations to keep out of the present struggle," the reporter was told, "for interference would bring about another world war, and China docs not want that. There may be an agreement between China and Russia, but our Government feels it can win without assistance. Certainly it will not drag Russia into war."