Japan Will Lose War, Says Czech Authority

Northern Advocate, 15 July 1939, Page 7

Japan Will Lose War, Says Czech Authority

[Special to “Northern Advocate”l AUCKLAND, 'Friday.

Mr F. Kosik, manager of the Czech Skoda Company’s office at Canton, | who arrived in Auckland yesterday on a holiday visit, believes that the Japanese will lose the war in China, and they know it. “They are getting into worse trouble every day, but they are so deep in the mire they cannot leave. They are hoping for some miracle to happen,” he said. Mr Kosik speaks with the authority •of one who has lived in the heart of the war zone throughout the conflict. When in Canton, he lived through a year of constant air raids, the burning of the city by departing Chinese, and the subsequent Japanese occupation. Mr Kosik said that the Skoda office at Canton Was not connected with the armament branch of the concei’n. It handled the erection of factories, and had built three sugar works, a brewery, a pepper mill, and power plant, and a number of locomotives for the Chinese Government.

The Consolidated patrol bomberwhich is being flown to England by Pilot Russell Rogers for delivery to the British Government took off from Buffalo for Botwood. Newfoundland, after a 24-hour stop for refueling. The machine arrived at Botwood eight hours later.