"Threat to Nan Does Not Intimidate Chinese Humiliating Peace Impossible Nanking, Nov. 20. EITERATING China's determination to resist Japanese aggres~ sion to the bitter end, an official announcement of the removal of the seat of the National Government from Nanking to Chung-Ising, Szechuen, was made to-day.
China, the statement declared, stands firm against coercion—which is Japan's intention as demonstrated by the westward advance of her armed forces to threaten the safety of Nanking—into accepting humiliating terms.
In taking this threatening step, the statement said, the Japanese caiculations are greatly mistaken. For in embarking upon the present war of resistance after all peaceful means had proved fruitless, China has fully made up her mind that her salvation ies in Aghting the invaders even to the last man, 'Our submission to Japan," the statement emphasized, "is neither compatible with our national exist-fence and honour nor with the main tenance of international justice and. peace, 'To be a broken jade rather than a whole tile' is to-day, the determination of every patriotic Chinese!
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