"In maintaining and extending her war of resistance China encounters lack of money The financial problem has only to be posed to be understood: on top of three years of destructive warfare, with the loss by seizure or destruction of her richest industrial areas, with communications largely disrupted, China has been maintaining millions of soldiers and guerillas. The external value of her currency has fallen to one fifth of the prewar rate, while domestic prices have risen six fold. Fortunately the Waited States and Great Britain have stepped into the breach and have given us substantial assistance in loans and ered From persons who J have just come from China I lear that the effect of President Roosevelt's announcement of one hundred million dollars aid to China was electrical, and, as one observer puts it. the announcement gave to the sorely pressed people of China fresh assurances of ónal victasy.
"The world has become accustomed to the horrors of indiscriminate bombing of British cities and towns but the British at least possessed antiaircraft guns, balloon barrages, pursuit planes and, what is more, bombers to carry out retaliation. In China we have a situation today of Japanese planes flying leisurely over our cities and towns picking out targets and bombing them without danger of resistance or retaliation. On the two days of May 3 and May 4, 1939, twenty thousand civilians were killed. injured or burned to death in Chungking as a result of Japanese bombing attacks—a figure larger than the combined losses during six months of daily ferocious strafing of London "The Japanese, who are past-masters in the art of abusing words, choose to call the Sino-Japanese conflict with ite millions of soldiers killed and wounded and with millions of others engaged, a mere incident—the "China Incident" The United States may never become a belligerent in the present World War, but whatever you Americans choose io call us, we feel ourselves your allies, holding your outer ramparts in the Pacific.
"Since my arrival here I have sensed the strong feeling of friendship for China wherever I go. I think it is not entirely sympathy for a victim of aggression; I think it is not mere recognition of. the gallant defence my people have put up; I like to think it is something more, a deep seated instinct that here you have a great people whom you can trus! who are helping to keep the from your doors, and who. if they ive this ordeal, will cooperate e Pacific area an dren's children.
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