EFFECT OF INVASION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22823, 2 September 1937, Page 11

EFFECT OF INVASION

UNIFICATION 'OF CHINA VIEWS OF CHIANG'S ADVISER (Received September 1, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK. August 31 7' Mr. Clayton Hamilton, dramatic critic and author, who hasi just returned from a conversation he had with Mr. W. H. Donald, Chiang Kai-shek's adviser. Mr. Donald, who was born in Australia, said: "The Japanese invasion will do more to unify £hina than any thing else. "Shanghai is not of strategic importance. The Japanese may win the battle there, but • they will never conquer China owing to the vastness of its area and population/." . CHINESE LEADER ACTIVITIES OF WIFE ATTENDS WAR COUNCIL , SHANGHAI. August 31 It is revealed that Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Chinese Generalisshao, attends the meetings of the War Council at Nanking as secretary to ti)s Aeronautical Committee. She personally inspects the results of all air raids and has established a war museum in which are relics of Japanese reverses. In addition she directs the evacuation and care of refugees. She and her husband are devout Christians and spend j half an hour in prayer each night aad morning. „ GERMAN PRESS COMPLAINT, BY CHINA ( BERLIN. August 31 The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Cheng . lien-fong, has drawn the attention of tfie Foreign Office- to China's displeasure at the methods of a section of the German ''press in chronicling t events in the Far East. Hie Foreign Minister will report to Herr Hitler on the question and also ' convey China's reasons for signing the I pact, which may bo a Prelude to closer Uusso-Chinese cooperation if the anti-Chinese attitude the German press persists. BRITISH ADMIRAL > COMMAND ON YANGTSE ' Wireless RUGBY, August 31 Admiralty announces the appointment of llear-Admiral Reginald °t to be Rear-Admiral and senior officer on the Yangtse in succes10n *° Lewis Crab'oe. to t ' lo '"terruption of various tKo v b sP u . d Hongkong, messages for tuhifl?!* 0I " aud Japan are still »ta» some delay, according to a and t , nt lss " ed last night by the Post SDCI Telesraph Department.