WAR IN CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA

COUNTER-ATTACK PLANNED

A historical survey of the war in rOhina was given by Dr. Koo to an [audience of about 490 members of the ■ Wellington Chinese community at a ■reception accorded him last night. (Among those present were the ConsulGeneral (Mr. Feng Wang) and Madame iFeng Wang, the Consul for China (Mr. 'y. Jackson), the Vice-Consul (Mr. Lai), 'Mr. M. C.'Chiti and Mr. W. Wah, Eng,lish secretary of the association. The organisers of the reception were 'Messrs. K. C. Chiu and W. Wah, and 'Mr. Chiu presided.

Dr. Koo said that the one answer to all the criticism that had been made against General Chiang Kai-shek that _€hina had unnecessarily sacrificed the of,her army in the first stage, was that the success attending the resistance had encouraged the nation and the Government to carry on the war. China was able to and had resisted the might of the Japanese nation in spite of inferior equipment; It had been .able to hold the enemy and counter-

■ As a result of. that confidence it was ife be found'that in spite of three years ajf war China was as strong as ever, while.'other nations in ; Europe had fallen in the first stage of the war in flSurope.

The second point the speaker made *pas that after all this fighting China pad not found it necessary to introduce ration cards, and her economic iposition was sound, th.anks to the help fof Great Britain, the United States, and pßussia. When the time was opportune the ayar would enter its third and final ,stage—that of counter-attack and sucrcess, said the speaker.