POSITION IN CHINA
PROMINENT MAN'S VIEW. (Press Assn.) AUCKLAND. May 16. “As far as China is concerned the crisis is over and the danger of being crushed by Japan has passed away; Japan is attempting to withdraw front the war quickly. . with the least possible loss of prestige,” said I)r. T. Z. Koo, travelling secretary of the World Student Christian Federation, who has arrived to four the Dominion. Dr; Koo said the Chinese people were grateful for it credit of 00,000,000- dollars granted them by the United States Government. The money would be used for heavy munitions, which were needed urgently. , “The refusal of the Soviet to allow munitions to be transported across Russia for the use of the belligerents will not affect the delivery of war materials from America,” Dr. Koo said, adding that most of it was received over the Burma Road. Russia was supplying only a limited amount of war materials to General Chiang Kai-shek, most of this being aeroplanes.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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