CHINESE RESOLUTE

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 258, 28 July 1941, Page 7

CHINESE RESOLUTE

Pursuing Resistance To

Japan

(Received July 27, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 26.

The Chinese Foreign Minister, Mr. Quo Tai-chi, in a statement in Chungking, said Japan’s occupation of IndoChina jeopardized the rights and possessions of all other Powers in the western Pacific. China would resolutely pursue her resistance in the firm belief that the other Powers would not allow the latest Japanese aggression to go unchecked till it was too late and too costly to alter it. Authoritative quarters in Chungking stated that in view of the Japanese occupation of Indo-China, the Chinese had consolidated and strengthened the equipment of crack units defending the Yunnan and Kwangsi frontiers and the Burma Road. The Hong-Kong correspondent of “The Times” says the movement of Japanese transports from Canton apparently has been completed. Foreign circles there accept the Chinese estimate that 20,000 Japanese troops sailed from Canton, presumably for Indo-China, though Chinese newspapers report that some landed on islands in the Cantonese estuary. The Chinese central news agency reports that Chinese forces have attacked vigorously iu the Canton region, from which many Japanese troops have recently been withdrawn. There were heavy Japanese casualties, despite the strong air support given to their troops.