CHINA'S DESTINY
GOOD OUT OF THE WAR Instances of the good the war in China was doing the Chinese people were given bv Mr. J. Bertram, a former New. Zealand Rhodes Scholar, at a League of Nations Union luncheon in Milne and Choyce's Reception Hall Jesterday. A now type of intellectual was arising among the students of China and they would great!v influence the country's future, said Mr. Bertram. Some of the best people were to be found among the peasants and workers, and they would decide China's destiny, not the politicians and the Oovernment. They alone could wi n the ■war and build a new China. Jhe armies were ill-equipped and composed normally of peasants. Jew were provided with great coats and they _ were armed with ancient rifles Their life was one of terrible hardships, their food was simple, and they line] to march as much as 40 miles a day, and sometimes during the night. The armies' endurance was something to marvel at. The men of China s armies, however, were realising what the struggle was for, and China was gaining much in the course of the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23606, 15 March 1940, Page 6
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