The Archive · 1937

CHINESE "REDS" MADE)

8th ROUTE ARMY

General Chu Teh Appointed Their Commander Sian. Sept. 10.

The Chinese Communist forces Inave been reorganized Into the Bighth "Route" Army under the solitary AMfalee Commission, it was! Jomciatiy.snnotneed here. to-day.

"Chu Teh has been appointed Commander of the Army, and Peng Teh-faust, Deputy Commander. The appointments were learned to have been "made" by" General" Chiang IKaivsheke on Aug. 22.

circular telegram to the nation. lu sued by Generals "Chu and' Pend lon August 28 upon their assumption lot the new army. posts, was "made their' strength in pulling Uhrough the greatest crisis' she had ever faced.

"There Is a parallel between China's present campaign and any ordinary

suggested, more. capital. any Kind' of Bunnear venture 0 Wong enterprise was able to command, the more' strong its position would be. Similarly, the ore money the Chinese people were ready to, sink fu this grim. business of national salvation,. the stronger would. be China's strength at resistance and the greater the hope of a final vic~ ory.

For this reason, he said he could not advocate too strongly, that all [China's sons and daughters lend thet ssatiance ey faure. the. success of the Liberty Loan.

"This parallel, however, did not hold good for Japan. For the more heavily her finances were involved hee China expedition, the deeper domestic distress she" would encounter, and the poorer her economic Situation, the more vulnerable would be her. fighting machine.

'Mr. Wang Temined his invisible audience that' modern warfare was only military but also. fnanclal Ching, therefore, must, be able. hold out tnanclaily before she expects to. win Speaking on the resistance Chinese defenders during the Shang hal hostilities in 1982 and the present campaign, Mr. Wang said that one Object hes now been secomplished 2 concerted national resistance.

During the 1892. hostilities, "Int. Wang "recalled, more than' forty enemy warships "were Sssigned to patrol the Yengtze between Woosung and. Hankow. But this time Japane Army, took. part in the hi ime the. whole are ready order of the highest military com-'On the ale, during 1982 enemy air-graft had 'a free hand over: Guiness ferettory and "wantonly a Chinese ives and. property. Now [China hag antiaircraft guns "and Pursuit "planes to. frustrate. the ate Tempts of Japan's war binds.

'Al these, Mr. Wang concluded, go prove that the national. defence work cared of bythe Government with funds contributed has hed felling effect, and. onl Stimulate' their readiness to. con Uinue "pledging their material and morat "support tothe authorities 1 algo wish to Uhank the many for-ign friends of China, who, by' their expressions of sympathy and. moral Ruppert, have heartened usin. our: ask, Foreign sympathy is necessary for wwe depend upon the wisdom and justice of nations to save. the world us from the consequences of ealelated felschoods dally emanating from: Japan."

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