The Archive · 1937

Mr. Carl Crow

CHINA WAR

Chinese Will Win as Japan Will Collapse, He Says Seattle, Sept. 16.

The Chinese will win the Sino-Japanese conflict, said Mr. Carl Crow, well-known Shanghai advertising man recently an author of a best-seller and who has been a resident of China for 26 years, He made the prediction in a press interview here to-day.

"China is sure to hold out for at Toast two years, fighting a defensive battle," he said. "By that time Japan will have been licked, I think the Japanese are going fo have a collapse of morale. For years they have been told the Japanese army is invincible and now they are finding out that it is not true."

During his recent visit to the Philippine Islands, Mr. Crow said, he found that Japanese sentiment there Was opposed to war.

Mr. Crow called attention to the fact that although the Chinese were able to bomb Tokyo aerially they Will not do so because it might jeopardize her chances of League assistance.

He predicted that the Chinese would develop almost impregnable defences in the region of Soochow and most of the fighting in the future would centre there—United Press.

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