Peking, Jan, 8.
morning faced 60 Chinese Marshal Chang Hsueh-l 2 or eign correspondents in an interview At which he appeared in good health, ut tired, He struck the keynote when he was asked whether it was his pole For resist tothe end. aha The M countered with, "Ie ltd policy to attack to the end?"
He declared the had long advocated a pad settlement of the Sino-Japanese dispute, for the present situation was disad tageous to both China and Japan ind would be more disadvantageous if war developed.
To defend China was their unquestioned duty, but had they for= gotten all arid War? a state of auked the wor, all the: wore for for nothing' world was now for Peace. ven th Sepensie ined "ihey, were' for Were' doing' showed. whether they ace, but what they had done a Peace, wore sincere in talking' of desiring
Marshal declared that ie was rdieue Discosing provoaton, the Young ous to assume, while the Japanese were moving troops, ely) that when Chine' moved troops "in Ber ing hires guards say, "You ate provoking me." not now jon of who fired the first Look' atthe result. to sea the cause: the town has been razed and people killed. The beginning of the Shanhaikuan incident wai the same incident. "Perhaps "it the beginning of th better to send another commission There should be but. one end, to this, the Marshal continued, "that Manchuria and Shanhaikuan'should bbe handed back to China.
One of the Japanese excuses for taking to. i tian Manchuria was that they objected man called Chang Hsueh. now they have taken a, portion of China Vecause they object to this man. He must be an important individual and is overwhelmed ab the complement, but if a settlement of this, trouble depends upon' the disposition of an individual, then it will be eas}
It had been stated that the Japan~ ese could not lose face: they could not abolish Manchukuo because of face, With China it was not 'a question, of face, but of life and ath. "How will this end?" We will use what means we have to pro= tect our lives and our national existence. We expect another protest. from Japan. "Because we now show fight," they will say' we are "proing them, but fighting is, an ample the Japanese have given us for, adoption.
China "has been tient. We have not fought back, it, with no result. In Japan some people advocated The Tenge and "the Bee. with world advocated peace, but without result, We mean to accomplish, Jour aims, but ithout war."
'The Marshal then added: I do not know what is. Japa object If they are after 'Chang' Hsueh Hang, then they will not be so hard to meet Perhaps. their object. is the life-blood of China and we cans not, allow that,"
Asked. whi the foreign Powers Gould do to assist, he said that their foreign frien: sould Tay the facts nese people, who were now being cheated by propaganda, for it was unbelievable that all Japanese were unreasonable, jor that all of them thought oblique-
The facts were not now enjoying 8 "good break, but he thought there wag no feason. to. be pessimist The outlook was black, bub he believe that ultimately truth and righteousness must. prevail.
In conclusion the Marshal said had been, ig on betiveen himself and the Japanese, He had not been approa> [ched to negotiate, If negotiations. were carried on, 1 ist be ried on through the ent ral Govern= ment.—Reuter.
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