Chiang-Kai-Shek Explains why Japan Will Be Defeated

Northern Advocate, 30 January 1939, Page 8

Chiang-Kai-Shek Explains why Japan Will Be Defeated

... <* [Per Press Association. CQpynqht.l v :,'' ’ WELLINGTON, Tliis Day. fpHE CHINESE CONSULATE-GENERAL RECEIVED BY CABLEGRAM A THE TERMS OF AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MARSHAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK TO THE FIFTH PLENARY SESSION OF THE KUOMINTANG. He gave the following reasons why Japan would be defeated:

Chiang’s Paints.

(1) After the occupation of Manchuria the enemy had not consolidated his gain before embarking on the invasion of the whole of China. This was in contradiction of the fifth plan for carrying out an aggressive continental policy. (2) The enemy’s object, a “quick war and a quick decision,” failed to materialise. (3) The enemy, in penetrating deep into China, has fallen into a morass from which he is unable to extricate himself, thus failing'- in military strategy. (4) The enemy, in setting up puppet administrations in China, hopes to exclude all foreign interests. Japan’s foreign policy has become more and more self-contradictory, and with this duplicity the enemy is faced with isolation and peril. Thus he has failed politically. (5) The enemy is ignorant of Chinese history, and does not know the capabilities of the Chinese people. He has no knowledge of this modern age, nor is he familiar with the qualities underlying the progress of the revolutionary movement in China. China. Will Never Give In.

Declaring that the enemy is sure to be defeated, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek said: “We will never give up the fight half-way through, or compromise with or surrender to the enemy. . “Viewing the situation from our history, our geographical position, ouz civilisation, the spirit of our peoples and our economic resources, the enemy cannot hope to win the war.

“The tendency of the international situation is towards upholding truth, justice and peace. World democracies have redoubled their efforts in making preparations to check aggression. “We should more than ever follow the righteous path, and fulfil the national policy of carrying on the war of resistance to its final conclusion. Cause of Righteousness. “From time immemorial countries fighting righteous wars have always gained the victory.” Marshal Chiang appealed for unity and co-operation in opposition to the enemy’s “insolence and recklessness.” China must expand the country’s agriculture, which was its special gift. It must persevere in resistance and aggravate the enemy’s weakness of being an industrial country.