GREAT HARDSHIP AHEAD

Southland Times, Issue 23945, 11 October 1939, Page 8

GREAT HARDSHIP AHEAD

APPEAL TO CHINESE PEOPLE NO HOPE OF EARLY END TO WAR (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received October 10, 9.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 9. The Chungking correspondent of The New York Times says that in a message to the nation on the twentyseventh anniversary of the Chinese Republic, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek said that real peace was impossible _ until China had attained the final victory. He issued a warning that greater hardships were ahead and there was no hope of an early conclusion of the war. The Japanese would continue to dream of subjugating China until they encountered the full striking power of China’s all-front resistance, said Marshal Chiang Kai-shek. He called for an intensification of guerrilla activities and the organization of sabotage corps to wreck factories, communications, mines and warehouses operated by the enemy The Chinese have retaken Hsinchiang. A Japanese Army spokesman admitted that the Japanese forces in Central China had returned to the positions occupied before the drive to Changsha on September 15, says a message from Shanghai. The spokesman denied the Chinese claim that the drive had resulted in sweeping defeats, contending that the purpose of the drive was to administer a crushing blow to the Chinese to prevent the reported October offensive.