HOSTILITIES IN NORTH

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22833, 14 September 1937, Page 9

HOSTILITIES IN NORTH

RAILWAY OPENED AGAIN missionaries in shansi PEKING. Sept. 12 The Japanese have reopened the Nan-fcow-Kalgan railway, in North China. They repaired the tunnel which the retreating Chinese damaged. British missionaries have been advised to evacuate Shansi Province, owing to the Japanese invasion. The Chinese have withdrawn from Machang. WESTERN nations ATTITUDE TO CHINA BEWILDERMENT expressed ■ ■ NANKING, Sept. 12 Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the President,- Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in a .'broadcast; address, bewilderment at the "Western nations silence. She added: "If the Western world deliberately abandons its treaties the Chinese, who for years have been stigmatised as cowards, will fight until they win or are beaten to broken knees, even if their good earth is steeped in blood and ■drenched in fire and destroyed. "Al! treaties outlawing war and regulating its conduct seem to have crumbled. I We have a reversion to savagery. "Japanese militarists' are determined to wreck and eradicate all foreign influences in China. They must regard the Occidental reception of the situation as delightfully encouraging, deducing therefrom that they have at last been able to, make a clean sweep of Western prestige. "Massacres are bound to extend, because Japanese have prepared aerodromes at Shanghai. \\e on the wisdom and justice of the nations to' savo the world and China from the consequences of daily Japanese falsehoods."

LEAGUE action urged

INTOLERABLE AGGRESSION MENACE TO WORLD PEACE i ■ GENEVA. Sept. 12 The Chinese delegation to-night appealed to the League for immediate action to stop what it describes as Japan's intolerable aggression in China. The delegation says the Far East crisis has developed into a world crisis. Japanese aggression is threatening not * only China's independence and territorial integrity but is menacing the general peace of the world. The delegation adds the hope that the United ; States will associate themselves with the League's action in the future as in the past. . CHINA'S RESOURCES MUNITIONS AND FOOD - c iCyf- " LONDON, Sept. 3 . Because China has not prepared for .war her reserve of materials is not great; thus, an arms embargo would amount to assistance to the aggressor, . stated an official of the Chinese Embassy. China, he said, possesses oiuly a few small-arms factories. She could manufacture only rifles, bullets and grenades Ihere arqf approximately 2,045,000 mcn in the regular Army, but they are scattered all over China. Conj Be ription would bring to the colours

mai >y more, but these would be raw troops. China imports considerable quantities foodstuffs, mainly wheat. Normally ®ae is self-supporting, but famines are always i. possibility. But the men of the new China arn Prepared to tighten their belts," said e B Pokesmaji. "A determination to ?! see . trouble through to the end a "iraates the country." AT TACK on ambassador ■■■ ■ ' SHANGHAI. Sent, lii L h * C'hniese A )r Force authorities a * e nptilietl the British authorities a norip oJ. riieir aeroplanes were in !! air ,ft the time the British Ambas- * ° r ' Hughp Knatchbull-Hugessen, ® s attacked in his car between Nan>B «ad Shanghai.