"Most of these hardships have been brought about by the necessity of providing against air attacks. Some may seem now to have been unnecessary since air raids have not taken place, but if they had come, as everyone expected, and had found us unprepared, you would have rightly blamed the Government for its defeated Japanese tanks,' meaning that the destruction of highways and roads by Chinese peasants had prevented the use of tanks by the Japanese,"—Reuter,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.