CHINESE WOMAN LEADER'S FIRE
A stirring message to England was sent by Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of China's generalissimo, in the following words:—" Our barbaric enemies have boasted that they intend to beat us to our knees and break our spirit. We shall show those enemies, as we shall show our friends, that in the blood of our fellow men and the ashes of our burned homes has flowered a new national spirit. As e snake strikes at its unsuspecting prey, so struck Japan at us, and our hope fit peace was crushed. We found ourselves involved in the coils of a war which soon expanded to the view of the world as the most colossal exhibition of remorseless barbarism that haf stained the pages of history. W* fought back, unprepared as we were, t because there was nothing else left fo> us to do. We are still fighting back We shall continue fighting back. We must, or submit to slavery as a people and death as a nation."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23592, 31 August 1938, Page 11
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