Chungking, May 1
All Chinese newspapers here this morning carried Jeading articles connection with the Labour Day celebrations, The "Hsin Hua Jih Pao," official organ of the Chinese Communist Party, © published this morning a spociat Labour Day edition. Tt also printed the texts of telegrams addressed 10 the Chinese people from the Central Committees of the Com= munist Party in England and Cuba wishing China success and prosperity.
Mr, Ma Chao-chun, Chuirnian of the Social Affairs Department of the Central" Kuomintang, ested appeal to workers throughout Chins to continue to make sacrifices for China's war of resistance.
The "Central Daily News," official organ of the Chinese Goverament, appealed to Chinese workers to re: double their efforts in production and in reconstruction, which it says fate vital to China's resistance against China Market Washington, May 3.
If China retains her sovereignty, she will eclipse every other nation in the world as a market for American goods within the next generation, Mr. 'C. HI French, vice. president of the Chinese-American Trade Council fold the annual meeting of the Ameri-Section of the Internation: Chamber of Commerce here last night He said the Philippines also would eventually excell Japan as a market for United States. products.
'American peace-time trade with Japan has probably reached its peak, hho' said, and probably will soon take a-downward trend.
"Should Japan succeed in her designs against China." Mr. French warned, "we stand to lose not only our China market, but also our trade with the Philippines. Moreover, we shall in such a case eventually be forced to wage a war of self-defence which will be infinitely costly both blood and treasure, venture to assert that there is no other foreign country in yeh ich the United States has so much at stake as in China. Nowhere else in the world are we confronted with such compelling reasons for taking Immediate and. effective action 10 safeguard our interests."—United Press.
[New Tientsin Mayor Peiping, May 4.
Myr., Wen Shih-chen hasbeen appointed by the "Provisional Government" as Mayor of Tientsin in sue-cession to Mr. Pan Vu-kuei, who has resigned for reasons of "health Reuter.
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