General Wu Te-chen Recalls Visits of Several High Japanese Officers: Tells of Preparations Canton, Feb. 20. OF the Japanese were to invade Kwangtung—and an invasion seemed only.a matter of time—they would find the Cantonese ready for them, said General Wu Te-chen, Chairman of the Kwangtung Provincial Government and formerly Mayor of Greater Shanghai, at a meeting of the Committee for Justice to China.
The Japanese, he declared, would find not only the regulars, "but every daughter and son of Kwangtung ready to meet them with sword, "It will then be a battle to the bitter end," he predicted. "Kwangtung is the cradle of Chinese nationalism. For our ideals and for our homesteads we will give the invaders a reception which they will not soon forget, The Cantonese are a peace-loving people, but when their homes are invaded they will teach
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