THE EASTERN CRISIS

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 73, 20 March 1933, Page 5

THE EASTERN CRISIS

Japs. Have Strong Force CHINESE BUILDING RAPIDLY LIFE MEANS LITTLE TO EITHER (Per Press Association) WELLINGTON, This Day. An arrival by the Maunganui from Sydney is Col. Vincent Schmidt, an American aviation instructor, who has been in China, as instructor io the Tenth Chinese Army, under the National Government. He said that Chinese air equipment was much behind that of Japan, but the Chinese were building up rapidly with machines ail imported from England, France, Italy and Germany. In four or five years thej should have a really strong force as they were spending a great deal of money on it. Civil war militated against a* united front being opposed to Japanese action in the north, but the internal position was improving, and he thought that in two or three years’ time the Chinese could be expected 10 act more as a nation. Ho did not think the Japanese would proceed south inside the Great Wall. but. undoubtedly they would complete their project of completing the combination of the three provinces of action as a buffer state of Manchukuo. The Japanese were as good as anything in Europe in equipment, staff work, and other respects and in the air corps. Life did rot mean much to either Jans or Chinese, and the Japs would not hesitate to bomb any town to achieve their objecive, no matter if it meant a heavy loss of civilian life. People in the south of China were not connected with the troubles in the north, and were not concerned about them. Foreigners of all nations were disliked in China.