The Archive · 1937

Chinese Standing Firm

The Chinese, "The Tim continues, have shown no signs of collapsing in this undeclared war in which hundreds of thousands of men are engaged. Their resistance may yet compel the Japanese General Staff to revise the estimate of a years campaign, and it is possible that their example may hasten the unification of China for which General. Chiang Kai-shek and his colleagues have worked with unremitting zeal.

The news of the accession of the Communists to the Nanking forces indicates that the policy of the Japanese militarists has done more to weld China together in the last three years than Russian propaganda has done in fifteen years.

At present, "The Times" concludes, Japanese public opinion will not (Continued on page 10),

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