CHINESE CONFIDENT
SECOND PHASE OF WAR 240 DIVISIONS BEING TRAINED t'U.P.A.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright! (Received 18th January, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, 17th January. Professor Chang Peng Chun, a member of the People’s Political Council, interviewed on arrival by air from Chungking, said that 240 divisions each j of ten thousand were being trained for j the second phase of the war, and thirty! thousand were being trained as officers! China during the first phase of the war fought chiefly on the defensive; she will be on the offensive in the second phase. China was ready for a prolonged war and was supremely confident of victory. Arsenals and even aeroplane factories had sprung up in south-wes-tern provinces. Chinese casualties were formerly three to on \ but now the position was exactly the reverse. Japanese troops totalled 1,000,000, but nearly 400,000 were immobilised in Manchuria.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 January 1939, Page 8
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140CHINESE CONFIDENT Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 January 1939, Page 8
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