"The conditions on plain mountain provide the Chinese w ample facilities for guerilla warfare, in which they excel," the article states. "The Chinese cannot drive Out the Japanese but they can harry them and make them waste their strength.
"The real test will come in the winter months. Japan then wil: probably have 350,000 men on all fronts. That is à considerable army to maintain in a foreign land the size of Europe. A Japanese does n make the best cold weather soldier.
The Chinese ability to hold out in respect of munitions is everywhere regarded as the chief crux of the situation. In this connection, the demand of Chinese newspapers for a formal declaration of war does not meet much support, as it would conier little apparent advantage on China and would automatically entitle the Japanese to the right to search ships, whereas at present it is believed that Japan does not desire to interfere with foreign ' shipping, apart from verifying nátionality.—Reuter.
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