Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was said to have threatened to resign last week unless the Chinese Cabinet and mi itary leaders voted confidence in his leadership and his determination to continue his programme of long-time resistance.
The Cabinet was said to have immediately voiced its confidence in the Generalissimo and thereby averted his resignation.
The Communist Party, allied with the Kuomintang in the war against Japan, also was said to have heartily endorsed the Generalissimo and his programme for continued resistance.
The Communists earlier had threatened to break with the Kuomintang armies unless Chiang Kai-shek was permitted to remain in supreme command and unless the war of resistance was continued.
Dr. H. H. Kung, Finance Minister, and Dr. Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, were said to have given the Generalissimo strong support in the Cabinet.
Chinese sources here said the Generalissimo personally ordered Chinese troops to evacuate Canton and Hankow. They said Gen. Vu Han-mou, Pacification Commissioner of Kwang-conclusion, would take place in Chungking on Friday next It was a routine session which had been planned some time ago and had by no means been arranged for the purpose of talking peace. On this point China's attitude was common knowledge. Although prepared at any moment o conclude honourable peace, she would refuse to consider a tung, had been ordered to take no new lines in the interior without attempting to defend Canton. Similar tactics, it was said, were being used in the Wuhan sector in an effort to draw the Japanese farther into the interior.—United Press.
China to Fight On Chungking, Oct. 27.
China will go on fighting to her last breath, declared Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Chinese Foreign Minister. in the course of an interview given yesterday to a Trans-ocean representative.
"It is absolutely inconceivable," he said, "that after making such great sacrifices China should now give up offering further resistance. The Chinese people are in fact more determined than ever to resist to the very utmost. They will continue to struggle until Japan makes an offer of equitable peace."
Asked whether the regrouping which has occurred within the Chinese Government meant that the left-wing elements were gaining ascendency, the Chinese Foreign Minister was most emphatic in his denial and equally so in claiming that all parties had sunk their differences and were united in their determination to serve the national cause.
Dr. Wang then touched upon the question of Sino-Russian relations. "China," he insisted, "has in this war only one enemy: Japan. She has no difference with the western powers. Her precarious position, however. compels her to accept every hand stretched out in friendship. For that sake there is absolutely no reason for seeing a swing to the left in acceptance of Soviet assistance."
The second meeting of the People's Political Council, Dr. Wang said in peace at any price.
An important pronouncement by Gen. Chiang Kai-shek is foreshadowed for the next few days by political circles here. It will take ihe form of a manifesto to the C nese people in which the Generalissimo will set forth his reasons for carrying on the war as well as an appeal to world opinion—Trans-Ocean,
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