Further, Donations Made "Washington, Apr. 30.
Chinese moral was never higher than at present and China would undertake an offensive against Japan as soon as she gets planes, declared Dr. Quo Tai-chi, former Chinese Ambassador to Britain, after he talked with Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, yesterday.
"The important thing now is planes and more planes," he added. He declared that munitions factories had been established in China's interior and will operate at full capacity as soon as raw materials are available.
Regarding Russia, Dr. Quo said the Russo-Japanese pact was less disturbing now than when it was first signed because Russia had since given assurances regarding present arrangements with China.
In Britain Matsuoka's Plans Lonäon, Apr. 30.
The immediate result of Sunday's broadcast by Madame -Chiang Kaishek, which was heard perfectly throughout Britain, was a further £500 subscribed to the British Fund for Relief of Distress in China.
This announcement evoked loud applause at the Fund's annual meeting yesterday, presided. over by Lord Donoughmore. The Lord Mayor of London then read a letter from the Sino-British Cultural Association in Chungking, enclosing £1,840 from Association members as an expression of their great sympathy with the suffering people of England.
"Britain's sympathy with China is all the keener since we learned what aggression really means," continued the Lord Mayor. The total British Fund for China now amounts to £228,229.—Reuter, Meanwhile, the Japanese suggestion. that Mr. Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese Foreign Minister, should come to the United States and see President Roosevelt still arouses some interest in sections of the press. The Scripps Howard newspapers said that informed quarters in Washington consider the suggestion as a trial balloon while others see it as an officially inspired ieeler reflecting Japanese anxiety over what the United States will do if the Japanese expansion programme is increased.
The papers quote unnamed officials here as contending that as long as Japan as an aggressor is linked with ihe Axis Mr. Matsuoka would be a most unwelcome visitor here. The same papers however state editorial. ly that they can think of few possible moves on the international draught board whose potentialities for good would be greater, adding that Mr. Matsuoka knows the United States U.S. Air Officers to
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