REVIEW OF WAR WITH JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 198, 19 May 1941, Page 6

REVIEW OF WAR WITH JAPAN

Counter-Attack To Come Upward of 400 members of the Wellington Chinese community assembled in the Chinese Association’s rooms last night for the reception to Dr. Koo. Among those present were the ConsulGeneral, Mr. Feng Wang, and Madame Feng Wang, the Consul for China. Mr. Y. Jackson, the vice-consul, Mr. Lai, Mr M. C. Chiu and Mr. W. Wall, English secretary of the association. The organizers of the reception were Messrs. K. C. Chiu and W. Wah. and Mr. Chiu presided. ' . Dr. Koo gave a general historical survey of the war in China, reviewing it in three stages, the first being direct resistance, the second guerrilla warfare, and the third (which was to come) counter-offensive. ... The one answer to all the criticism that had been made against General Chiang Kai-shek that China unnecessarily sacrificed the flower of her army in the first stage was that the success attending the resistance had encouraged the nation and the government io carry on the war. China was able to and had resisted the might ot the Japanese nation in spite of inferior equipment. It had been able to bold the enemy and counter-attack.

As a result of that confidence it was to be found that in spite of three years of war Chinn was as strong as ever, while other nations in Europe had fallen in the first stage of the war in Europe. The second point the speaker made was that after all litis lighting China had not found it necessary to introduce ration cards, and her economic position was sound, thanks to the help of Great Britain, lite United States and Russia. When the time was opportune Hie war would enter its third and final stage—that of cottnter-iltlack and success. said the speaker.