Speech Actually Made Four Years Ago Now Released China must unify and concentrate her efforts to defeat Japanese impenalism, declared General Chiang Kai-shek in a 40,000-word add; delivered by his representative ov the Central Broadcasting Station at Changsha yesterday morning. General Chiang's address was on the subj "Resistance of Foreign Aggression and the Rejuvenation of the Race, and in it he once again stressed hi Kanegafuchi Spinning Company, In belief that China had no alternative than to resist Japanese aggression.
In the introductory remarks by General Chiang's representative, the letter revealed that the speech had actually been delivered over four years ago to military officers' training classes in Kuling, and was then classified as a confidential document; it has only now been released when was found that the opinions and forecasts then expressed had now come true. General Chiang in his speech four years ago predicted Japan's aggression and since then he had striven to strengthen China's defence against such an emergency.
Japan's policy, he said, was to defeat the United States and Soviet Russia, smash the British Empire and swallow up China to assume domin ance in the East. Despite China backwardness in national defence, continued General Chiang, she was able to resist Japan and could secure the ultimate victory if she became nationally unified, In his speech of four years ago, the broadcast yesterday revealed, General Chiang urged that, in view of the menace of Japan, China must build defence works everywhere in order that she might be able to resist the invasion he foretold inch by inch
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