GRIM RESOLVE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23085, 9 July 1938, Page 15

GRIM RESOLVE

CHINA'S LEADER FIGHT TO THE END JAPANESE SACRIFICES EMPEROR'S MESSAGE LOSSES IN CONFLICT By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright LONDON, July 7 "We shall fight to a finish if there is only one inch of teriitory left and one Chinese alive," said Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in a broadcast on the first anniversary of the war. "We shall resist until our territorial integrity and sovereignty are safe. This determination is final, come what may." Emperor Hirohito of Japan, in a message to his people, calls for national sacrifice and concentration, and the elimination of long-standing evils, so as to restore prosperity through KinoJapanese co-operation, 'this would scr\e to ensure world peace.

Tho Japanese Finance Minister, Mr. Ikeda, announced that Japan's financial and economic position is now favourable.

A two minutes' silence -was observed at noon in Tokio as a tribute to those who have died in the Avar. Memorial services took place all over the country. Foreign observers at Shanghai estimate the casualties in the war at 1,000,000 Chinese and 300,000 Japanese. They point out that large tracts of the occupied territory are in the hands of Chinese guerilla fighters, and that actually the Japanese control extends five miles on each side of railways and waterways. None of the victories was decisive. The Chinese are meeting the Japanese en route to Hankow, and a fierce hand-to-hand conflict is waging between Hsiangshan and Hsiangkow. The Japanese northern army in China is still immobilised bv the floods, states tlie Tokio correspondent of the Times. The cost of the war to date to the Japanese is £430,000,000, and is being met by increased taxation. The internal indebtedness burden is heavy but bearable.

TERRORIST HUNT POLICE IN SHANGHAI ALL FORCES MOBILISED 1000 SUSPECTS DETAINED LONDON, July 7 The biggest terrorist hunt in the city's history, including raids on hotels, shops, homes, cabarets and theatres marked the anniversary in Shanghai of the outbreak of-war. Police stopped cars and trams, and mobilised all the Internationa] Settlement forces, including Japanese troops, Seaforth Highlanders, Russian volunteers and American marines. One thousand suspects were detained by the police. CHINESE IN SINGAPORE SINGAPORE, July 7 Thousands of Chinese attended a mass meeting to observe the war anniversary but they were entirely orderly. Penang, where there have been antiJapanese demonstrations, is also quiet.