London, Oct. 25.
General Chiang Kai-shek certainly will not resign, and there is no foundation in rumours that he will, declared Mr. Quo Tai-chi, the Chinese Ambassador in London, yesterday.
Tt fs equally untrue, Mr. Quo went on, that Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the Foreign Minister, and Mr. Wang Ching-wel, the former Premier, have gone to Hongkong to see the foreign Ambassadors, and to discuss media tion in the Sino-Japanese hostilities.
"The ess of Canton, and that of Hankow, which I fear'we must. expect, docs not affect our strategy, which is always based on a clear recognition of Japan's undeniable military advantages in the coastal regions," Mr. Quo continued. a decisive Japan's captures merely. i ise her difficulties by compelling her to seatter her forces.
"Wwe still have plenty of ammunttion for months to come," Mr. Quo added—Router.
Wang Ching-wel in Chungking Chungking, Oct. 25.
Referring to certain rumours current in foreign countries, a spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry stated emphatically yesterday that Mr, Wang Ching-wei, Chairman the Central Political Council and Deputy General Executive of the Kuomintang, and Dr. Wang Chunj hui, Chinese Foreign Minister, are now as heretofore in Chungking where they regularly conduct or ate tend conferences held there. All suppositions that these two statesmen had gone to Hongkong in order to ascertain what possibilities exist= ed for the beginning of peace negotiations were declared by the spokesman to be entirely erroneous.
At the same time, the Chinese spokesman denied assertions made in foreign countries about great lack of discipline among the Chinese troops, It had been said for instance, stated the spokesman, that in the fighting near Hankow. numbers of Chinese soldiers had fled. The truth was however that all Chinese troops at the front were now. as heretofore entirely loyal to their officers. There was not the slightest danger of the Chinese resistance col-Ipasing on account of any disorderly {light from the front.
Despite the dificult situation, the Chinese high command had decided to continue Chinese resistance to the Japanese attack whatever happened, since only in this way could the preservation of the Chinese Government and -the Chinese nation be assured. For six months past the Chinese had Feckoned with the possibility of the fall of Hankow so that should this now actually occur no kind of new situation whatever would be created.
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