The Japanese military could have done better if they followed their original policy of localizing war, the Governor said. As it was, they had brought all China to her feet to fight the enemy, he emphasized. In Kwangtung, like in other provinces indignation and hatred f the people had been aroused to feverish point The Cantonese were all ready to fight the invaders, he si The reconstruction programme of Kwangtung had been suspended by the war, Gen. Wu said. "But we are still assisting the farmers." Usually farmers were given $50 each for each of the two crops in the year, he said The plans of establishing factories to manufacture tools and fertilizers had to be suspended.
Life in villages in Kwangtung has not been seriously affected by the hostilities, according to Gen. Wu Referring to loans to farmers, Gen. Wu said they were all honest people and the Provincial Government had no difficulty in collecting them.
Many overseas Chinese who went abroad and became rich have returned to their villages in Kwangtuag to build spacious residences, according to Gen, Wu. They are there for show, and villagers belonging to the same family, whether they are in the village or in the city, are all welcome to live in.
Kwangtung is still using small currency. This could fave been abolished and substituted with the national currency, had not the war broken-out, Gen. Wu said. convenient and the citizens can go to the surrounding villages at short Washington, June 25.
Frank Knox, Chicago" publisher and Republican candidate for the Vice-Presidency in 1936, today asserted that President Roosevelt's "Fireside Chat" yesterday was an attempt to give an alibi for the business recession.
It was, he said, "a tirade against everyone who would not be a 'yés-man',..It was a5 weak a demonstration of statesmanship as this country has ever seen." He foresaw a purge of Democratic conservatives over protests of some of the Democratic Party who are against "goose-stepping behind the leader."
Political circles intimated that the policy defined in the President's talk clarified the New Deal attitude towards party bolters asserting their right to wage a primary war and Democrats "who ignore the liberal principles of the party plat forth and misuse the President's name.
Some believed that the President would oppose at least three Senators seeking nomination. They were said io be Senator Ellison D. Smith, of South Carolina, Senator Millard E.
dings, of Maryland and Senate: Walter F. George of Georgia, Al are Democrats. Most democrats approved of the President radio talk but some criticized it.
"I do not believe the President should meddle in the primary elections," said Senator William H. King, Democrat of Utah."—United Press.
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