-London, Aug. 20.
STRIKING tribute to the "strength and resilience of Chinese resistance" was paid in a leading article in "The Times" today.
Under an impulse of common danger and the inspired leadership of General Chiang Kai-shek, the paper says, China has triumphantly emerged from a long period of internal strife and anarchy, The unity of the Chinese people has been cemented, their will strengthened and their ingenuity sharpened in their desperate struggle to defend their national existence. the'Chinese armies are intact, and ky consummate and tactical skill they have foreed what ie virtually a stale mote "op (Who, Superior mechanized forees of the Japanese invader.
The recent bombing, in. Chungking, who Times? continues, Is not likely have the slightest effect on, the military situation. The. Chinese: have already suffered too much and have had too, longa tradition. of patience find endurance. $9 be deterred from {Mote purpose. by any form of in-imitation, "Probably nowhere in the world at the present time is the conviction ultimate victory more trinly held Than in China.
'Beneath all the uncertainties deviation' of Japanese policy.
Times" says, Ching reinaing its chief Prcoegunaton, and. ita chet anxiety. or 80 years China has been a domin-out factor in Japanese polley.
To Recover Lost "Face"
"the Times" attributes the recent development' of Japanese gustrandisefront far tne south party toa gesieg Wecover some of the Mace" fast rough the protracted allure of ths tiny {0 wind up the "China incident tut party also to a plan of encireinx hina from the south, cutting off her fow'remaining sources of supply and Steing her ito. submission"
Tnde-China, We says: is: the base for Intensified eampeiin against China 4 Well as the. Japanese jumping-el ound. for continuing depen's soul Wisragver Sic hone of blackmail reaver" Bie hope of blackmailing] Great Britain and the United States fio" aequleseenee. in. the Japanese domination of China by more aivect thes interests elsewhere, "ar from the minds of me hat atvaye very aye. deeiors of sap, nese poly, though, both President Toosevelt an the British Government fave: made it abundantly clear Urat threats can Bo as impotent as enlles=
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