A general armed resistance against Japanese aggression was urged upon the government authorities by local vernacular papers in their editorials.
We want immediate general offend sive. We want general mobilization," declared the "Central China Daily News" "We must arm the whole nation. Every Chinese should bear a rifle to fight to the bitter end." The paper urged the various vocal tional groups to rally under the anti-Japanese banner. War-time economia control should at once be enforced, it said, and a high national defence organ be formed to immediately mobilize the nation for a war against Japan.
The "Shun Pao" considered Peiping and Tientsin as China's life-line. If this life-line is broken by the "enemies," it said, the fate of our armed resistance is sealed,
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