Hankow, Nov. 23.
No matter how long the war will last, China is financially prepared to see it through, declared Dr. H. H. Kung, Minister of Finance, yesterday when he passed through here en route to Chungking.
Dr. Kung, who, it is reported, will soon succeed Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as President of the Executive Yuan, avowed that the National Government has completed all preparations, financially, monetarily and economically, for the purpose.
The removal of the seat of government from Nanking to Chungking, he said, does not mean the abandonment of the capital. Instead, do you it is designed to demonstrate, in the course of the war of protracted resistance, China's iron-cast determination to fight to the last.
During the World War, Dr. Kung alled, Paris was under a constant threat of German occupation and the seat elsewhere, but that did not prevent France from eventually emerging victorious.
With each and every Chinese ready to lay down his life in the defence of the country, the Japanese cannot escape being crushed in the long run no matter how deeply they might penetrate into Chinese territory at any one time, Dr. Kung stated.—
Central News.
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