The Archive · 1938

Broadcast Appeal

Hankow, July 7

In a stirring broadcast appeal to tne Chinese armed forces, and to Chinese civilians, made tonight, Gen. eral Chiang Kai-shek urged them to exert a greater effort to carry on tha war of resistance.

"Our objective is well-defined," the Generalissimo declared.

"We want to protect our territorial integrity and sovereignty," he went on ta say, "and we are determined to force our enemy to abandon his aggression and alter his traditional conception of our country-'Our final aim is the re-establish-iment of peace in East Asia, "We shall carry on our resistance until we attain this objective, "We shall fight to the finish even it there is only one inch of our territory left, and only one Chinese living.

"Come what may,"

General Chiang determination

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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