Generalissimo in National Day Address Strikes Confident Note; Inspiring Plea for Resistance 'N his Double Tenth speech whi ich was broadcast to the Chinese nati Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, acclaimed leader of the Chinese people, struck a confident note the future of China's war of national resistance. The speech and a realization of the difficult is tempered with calm assurance ities which the country is called upon to face, On the whole, the Generalissimo had spoken with an even voice, pointing out to his compatriots what they should do, and what' they should expect in thei tional freedom and independence.
He said:—The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Hepublic today is of unusual significance in view of the pervading tempestuous atmosphere in East Asia and throughout the world particularly" significant also because tentered upon the fourth national resistance.
As we celebrate the anniversary today, we must bear in" mind the ultimate aims of China's national re~ construction and be inspired, while seharging our great mission, with the spirit of the early revolutionary martyrs.
Twenty-nine years ago today, under the leadership of our late Party Leader, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the martyrs nid down their lives for the cause of the Revolution and finally succeeded in overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty and thus made it possible to establish the Republic, Situated as she is in East As China's first task should be to work for stability in East Asia as a means of ensuring world peace. In other words, our domestic policy shall be: to work for the stability of East Asia aS A means to achieving true and lasting world peace. This was the fdteal objective of the Chinese Re~ volution in 1911; and the ultimate him which Dr. Sun Yat-Sen had. throughout his whole revolutionary struggles, present grim struggles for na-
Yemained unshaken in our faith and confidence, and our position is becoming much. stronger, while our enemy has already played his last card.
The responsibility of saving East! 'Asia rests on the shoulders of the Chinese people; it Is also their responsibility to avert the crisis which now threatens the whole world. 'Nothing will be able to do us harm, unless Wwe should slacken our' paces trid our efforts. Nothing shall stop us irom realizing the Three People's We aye now entering upon the fourth year of our national resist ance: We are now standing on the Blorious threshold of a general world British Missionaries Arrested by Japanese Peiping, Oct. 25.
'The British missionaries, Mr. Davy and Mr. David, were arrested in Tsehchow' early in September and Mr. Alan Benson was arrested in Kalgan on August 27. They are still being held prisoners by the Japanese.
indication as to when they are to be released has been Japanese as Sworn Enemies 'The obstacles which Japan has placed in China's path during the' past 9 years have largely accounted {or our failure to full the bequeathed teachings of Dr. Sun Yat-sen and the early revolutionary martyrs. The! causes of our failures therefore, have been mainly external, We" must therefore regard the Japanese _mili= farists as the sworn' enemies of China's national economic reconstruc tion. The policy of aggression of the Japanese militarists Is Incompatible with the tenets of the Three People's Principles, because the ultimate aim of Japan's oxeression is to bring about China's extinction, the enslave ment of East Asia. and the conquest of the whole world. Japan's first tassie is (0 conquer China, which she will use as a jumping-off ground for the conquest of the whole world, the Japanese' militarists have con ceived it, their hallucinations, the Japanese militarists have clamoured for the establishment of the so-called "new order In East "Asia," which means that Japan shall become the. sole overlord on the Asiatic Continent and in the entire Pacific. The enemy his present madness will never awaken to his own peril unfit death should claim him, Having realized the full implications of the ultimate aims of the Japanese militarists, we shall nol shirk our responsibility in being the Vanguard for restoring stability East Asia, because the fate of the whole of Bast "Asia depends on the existence of China
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