The Archive · 1937

BLOCKADE CALLED

ILLEGAL

General Wu-Te-chen on the Japanese Action Canton, Aug. 20. The Japanese announcement of a without Canton, Sept.

Sinking all_poltieal previously entertained -agalt King, "General It, Chis chairman of the "abortive "Peopl Govern:

Fulkien in 1033, ntrived here yesterday from his home in. Kwangs Tnterviewed after his rival, Gen eral Li expressed th charge his duties help the Nati resisting foreign aggression Central News, sutures an illegal act of aggressi lented in. international rela-tons.

General Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung provincial government, commented thus on the subject fina' press interview with foreign Since Japan "has repeatedly announced to. the world that she hat indeed hard fo define the term "war: if, a blockade is not an act of Yar, then what is war?™ Coastal communication between. North and South China, General Wu stressed, will no doubt be affected by the blockade, and in his opinion, for-Jelgn commerce In China cannot either escape its consequences.

General Wu predicted that China's for under the pressure of the Japan-Jose would in the long run. be. un-Jauestionably be more severe than the Diockade, but, he said, the harder the pressure' the' more stubborn would Chinese be.

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