UNITED NATION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 6

UNITED NATION

NEW ERA IN CHINA

INDUSTRY AND LEARNING

END OF FEUDALISM

(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.)

CHUNGKING. February 13

A special representative of the Associated Press had a talk with members of the Chinese Government and formed the conclusion that China is rapidly emerging from fuedalism and, furthermore, that the Japanese aggression has resulted-in unification of the nation which years of patriotic endeavour might not have achieved.

"China is at present witnessing one of the greatest events in her history —a mass congregation of the people, industries, universities, and schools in the west from the occupied coastal areas," the correspondent states. "The Chungking authorities are planning to educate the people and to build new industries.

! "The Economic Minister, Mr. Wong Wen-hao, told me that many new'blast furnaces are already producing, and the Government is also treating native pig iron and ferro-silicori. China is now almost self-sufficient in pig iron, but not yet in steel. China is producing good" electrolytic copper and is exporting wolfram, tin, and mercuryChungking controls almost all the mercury, antimony, tin. wool, bristles, and wood oil that is produced in China. The Japanese control a number of important cities and railways, but they have no control over the production which does not come from those few cities. IMPOSSIBLE TO END. "Mr. Wong said it was very easy for the Japanese to start the war, but impossible for them to finish it. "The Minister of Education, Mr. Chen Li-fu, told me of the five-year I plan for adult and child education I which'will--begin this spring whereby 80 per cent, of the population are to benefit. This will be coupled with technical education and . a plan by which the schools will be used on Sundays as centres for ethical instruction. Mr. Chen intends to conscript every Intel lit en t man in China to help in the communications.

"The Home Minister, Mr. Chang-. Kiang-fu, assured me that friction between * the Central Government and the Communists has now been composed, resulting in China presenting a united front. The Foreign Minister, Mr. Wang Chung-hui, emphasised that all reports of friction between China and Russia were mere propaganda. Their relations were perfectly friendly." __