“CHINA WILL WIN”
CONFIDENT GENERAL Man-Power Hardly Touched GAINS NEAR SWATOW SHANGHAI, July 18. The Chinese captured ( haochow, northern terminus of the railway from Swatow, and also ( haoan, Anpu, Euyang, Yihsi, and l engshi, and are driving the Japanese southward after killing a thousand men. General Chencheng, Vice-Minister of War, declares that two years of war have hardly touched China’s man-power. The army numbered a million when the war began, he said, and there are now 2,500,000 front line effectives. There was no difficulty in filling gaps due to casualties. ‘Besides a hundred reserve regiments,” he says, “there are 15,000,000 able-bodied men with some training who could be drafted and made fit for the front line after a short intensive period of training. Eight million military men have been given training in the past three years, nearly 6.000,000 have been regimented into the local militia, and it is planned to train 4.500,000 more in various parts of China. China will win this war.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 169, 20 July 1939, Page 7
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