Japan’s Growing Difficulties in China

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 266, 8 November 1941, Page 7

Japan’s Growing Difficulties in China

INCREASING- STRAIN ON LIMITED RESOURCES (British Official Wireless.) Received Friday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, Nov. G. The Chinese Ambassador’s speech in Lonon on the part his country is playing so gallantly in the Far East is felt here to be useful evidence of the concrete realities in that area. The Daily Telegraph says: “There has been an abundance of conjecture about the next Japanese move in pursuit of the policy of calculated aggression. The menacing utterances in Tokio have been framed on the familiar Axis model of a war of nerves. Dr. Wellington Ivoo, however, dwells on the prosaic fact that Japan is engaged in a struggle in China which is destined to grow steadily more difficult for the invaders. The morale of China’s resistance, so far from giving any sign of fading out, goes on without intermission. Here the resolute fighting back has quite recently achieved important successes.

“While the Japanese effort is at its climax Chinese mobilisations have not yet attained their maximum and the increasing strain on Japan's limited resources will be far greater on account of the economic counter-measures of the anti-Axis Powers. All honour to the Chinese people who for four years have endured unflinchingly immeasurable loss and suffering and who have more than deserved the utmost material support that can be extended to them by tho friends of the anti-Axis alliance."