Declining to define the word "facilities" and to give any idea as to the extent of the Chinese operations in their resistance against the Japanese, General Hsing assured the interviewer that the Chinese Government is always ready to render adequate protection to the foreign lives and properties Ju the Seltle-
Informed of Japan's threat to "showdown" with China Hsing said China is qui ared to deal with the Japanese, He could not say whether hostilities would be confined in the north of Shanghai, but "we will engage them wherever we are attacked."
Asked whether a Chinese offensive would not be more advantageous if launched before the arrival of Japan: ese reinforcements, the army com= mander said It was quite correct In
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