Fight to a Finish

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 160, 9 July 1938, Page 5

Fight to a Finish

Chinese Determined, Says Kai-shek FIERCE HAND TO HAND FIGHTING United Pres* Association.— By Electric Telegraph-—Copyright. HANKOW, July 7. The Chinese Commander-in-ChTcf, General Chiang Kai-shek, in a broadcast speech, said: “We shall fight Ot a finish. If only one inch of territory is left and one Chinese remains alive we shall resist until our territorial integrity and sovereignty are safe. This determination is final, come what may.” The defenders are meeting the Japanese advancing to Ilftnkow hand-to-hand. A fierce conflict is being waged between Hsianghan and Hsiangkow. STILL IMMOBILISED JAPANESE ARMY IN NORTH LONDON, July 7. The Tokio correspondent of the Times states that the Japanese northern army in China is still immobilised as a result of floods. The cost of the war to date, £130,000.000 is being met by increasing taxation. The burden of internal indebtedness is heavy but bearable. CASUALTIES AND TERRITORIAL POSIT SHANGHAI, July 7. Foreign observers estimate the wa* casualties at a million Chinese and 300,000 Japanese. They point out that large tracts of occupied territory are in the hands of Chinese guerrillas. Actu ally the Japanese control extends for live miles on each side of railways and waterways. None of the Japanese victories has been decisive. MESSAGE BY EMPEROR MINUTE’S SILENCE TOKIO, July 7. j A message by the Japanese Emperor j on the occasion ox the first anniversary ox the war in China calls for national i sacrifice and concentration to eliminate long-standing evils. Prosperity, through Chinese and Japancao co-operation, \vould serve to ensure world jjeace. The Minister of Finance, Mr. Jkeda, announced tnut Japan’s financial and economic position is now favourable. A miuuto’s silence was observed at j.oon to-day as a tribute to the war j dead. Memorial eervices were held tnroughout the country. TERRORIST HUNT IN SHANGHAI . SHANGHAI, July 7. j The biggest terrorist hunt in the . city’s history, including raids on shops, tomes, cabarets and theatres, marked the anniversary of the outbreak of thf* ; war. Police stopped cars and tram? end mobilised ail forces in the settlement, including Japanese troops, Sea forth Highlanders, Russian volunteer> and American marines, and detained thousands of suspects.