NO SURRENDER

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 9, 12 January 1938, Page 9

NO SURRENDER

CHINA'S STAND

HOW WESTERN POWERS CAN

HELP

SUPPLIES FOR .WAR

(United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright.)

LONDON, January 11

The Chinese Generalissimo, General Chiang Kai-shek, cabling to the "News Chronicle," emphatically rejects'the peace terms, involving'surrender, which Japan wishes to impose, and declares that China refuses to be bludgeoned into joining the Berlin-Rome-Tokio anti-Communist bloc.

In reference to Britain's best means of supporting China, short of intervention, General Chiang Kai-shek declares that if the occidental Powers tolerate the farcical puppet procedure, it will

doom their Asiatic prestige and interests. If they do not desire to abandon the maintenance of treaties, international law, and human rights, and do not wish forcibly to uphold them, they can preserve civilisation by curtailing Japanese financial and economic freedom by ordinary banking and business processes, and can enable China to receive munitions and equipment to conduct a defensive war.

"China will uphold the treaties and non-aggression pacts which she signed," tfte General said. "The long campaigns to secure China's unity have allowed Japan to take her at a tremendous disadvantage. Japan has inflicted greatec injuries on the Chinese people ana on foreign interests in a few months than the war lords and so-called Communists have done in 20 years.

"As to a basis for peace negotiations, because of Japan's merciless slaughtering of Chinese people and the laying waste of China, there can be no peace that does not restore full Chinese sovereignty and honour." ■