EASTERN CONFLICT

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1937, Page 6

EASTERN CONFLICT

AIR RAIDS ON TOKIO RUSSIA’S ASSISTANCE NOT NEEDED.- , : -.v ‘»' . \ (Per Press Association — CoDyrigrit). DUNEDIN, September 14. The ’Chinese residents of Dunedin are quietly confident as to the outcome of the struggle now proceeding in the Far East, and their attitude is summed, up in the words . of one of them that “China -is bound to triumph eventually.” . f .

The Otago Chinese Association is being kept fully informed p.f y.the daily happenings in the battlefromt. Each day it receives a report lroiu the Chinese Government, sent through the Chief Consul for New Zealand at Wellington. The association asked that the news be unbiased, for it wished , to . knxpy everything that Occurred*, 'whether the Chinese won or dost yarious .'.engagements. • A result has been that full details of the. position have ißqjju received by the Chinese- . presidents in Dunedin. • .-.-/h. I .:'

The Chinese Government declines offers .from its subjects in a -New Zealand to return home to .fight, -. as-. it has- an abundance of “man power.” Instead, it asked its® people overseas to have entire confidence, in .Chinafs 11 ltimate success in the ipresent t, war; It might lose at -the start,-,- hut- there would he no doubt as to *3ie. outcome. China would never The vanquished by the Japanese. ' -

The ' possibility of the ; Chinese Government launching an aerial -attack on Tokyo’and other Japanese cities was mentioned to-day, -.when a reporter was discussing- the position with a prominent member ,of . the local Chinese Association. The reply was that the. association had .inquired why China should hot ; send an air fleet to bomb’ Japanese cities, and the answer ■ had beenreceived that the Government’ was giving , the matter full attention. . , . : ; ?

China’s air force was graving rapidly! and )even. y‘faster: ■ progress would be made very soon. • Bombing raids could, and probably- would,.. ;be cari’ied out, and they would f llarass Japan' at home in The way' thaLr was doing to China. ... . .

“What alliance exists between Russia ,and -. China,”., .'was . anoQrer question the Chinese Government tyas aske<3. Tlie reply was ine to the peoples ,of other-, lands ■‘China lias asked other, keep ; out. of the . struggle,” the reporter was told, “for interference would bring ; . about anojt:b(br world war, and China does- not,want that. -. There may be -. |h between , China and Russia, but ~ pur Government feels j-t can .win f without assistance. • Certainly ,it will bjiiot drag Russia into war. -.. ■ IT..V