Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXIV, Number 45, 6 Malaki 1940 — 10 Million Chinese Preparing To Fight [ARTICLE]

10 Million Chinese Preparing To Fight

LOKOON—A new CUinese Ajrmy of tep miUion »en, swetly aBaam : bl«a, liee Wdde«i soan>wi»ere ln Chioa awaiting a gtgantic offensive agalnst the Japanose. » HUs elaim is attributed to Dr, Sun FOj President qf the Chines© Iyeglslative Yuan, who recently arrive<J in England on an official visit. ia an interview Dr, Suu declared tnat this army, whieh woul«l be the greatest ever raised in one country s has been secretly conscripted and train.ed in several dlfferent parts of Chiaa for the past 15 months. He declared that only Generai ChiaQg Kai-ehek knows wliere this Kigantic army lies hid<Jen or when big, offenaive will eommeuee, InteD3ive preparations are being made. Secret munition factorjes ( are scattered over Ohlna'? vast ter- j ritory to avo!d desU uctiou by Jap-j aneae bombs. ' Camouāaged amidst the moun-' tains the TraUeyß, waterfalls and 1 streams, amall factories carry out! a syfitem of smaH-scale mass production whicb has been evolved by. the Chinese. j "They are bo situated that they| ar& con\nletely invisible t/he »ir," Dr. Sun Fo declared. ; Statsng that Ihe European war 1s scarcely interfering vnth the flow of essential supplies to China he revealed that Ameiieun supplies ara arriving uniiui>ede<l lhrougl> Burma, the "back door of China", aud thence alo»g ilie great "peasant road" whieh millions ot Chin- | eae built with tlieir bare hands. I These supplies are mostly gasoI line, steel, faxm machinery and tracka. The trade tieaty wiih. Russiā whieli was negotiated and signed by Pi. Si;u Fo in Mosco\v lasi June is now operating on an exchange system. In return for delivery or tcam and sevejal valuable metals Ohiiia rocelves munitions aud machinery īrom Russia. "The Soviet t"jJion has given us more help aud more material tlian any other source," Dr. Sun is elaimed to have stated.