Message to Troops on War Anniversary Hankow, July 7.
In a stirring broadcast appeal to me Chinese armed forces and to Chinese civilians, made tonight, Gen. eral Chiang Kai-shek urged them to exert a greater effort to carry on th? war of resistance.
"Our objective is well-defined," th" Generalissimo declared.
"We want to protect our territorial integrity and sovereignty," he went on to say, "and we are determined to (cree our enemy to abandon his aggression and alter his traditional conception of our country.
"Our final aim is the re-establishment of peace in East Asia.
"We shall carry on our resistance until we attain this objective.
"We shall fight to the finish even it there is only one inch of our territory left, and only one Chinese living.
"Come what may," General Chiang concluded; "this determination is final "—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.