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Chinese Author
Tells Why The :
Chinese Battle
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The following analytical des
cription of the Sino-Japanese war
explains to a great extent the
present resistance offered by the
Chinese against the Japanese in
vasion. It was printed in the
New York Times Magazine, writ
ten by Lin Yutang. noted Chin
ese author. The story follows:
(Continued from Yesterday)
Anti-Nipponism and this new
nationalism cannot be separated,
and Japanese statesmen know it.
China’s progress is Japan's night
mare. Constructive and destruc
tive nationalism can be disting
uished in theory, not in practice,
and again Japanese statesmen
know- it. That is why, in every
war. Japanese artillery and bomb|
ing planes are aimed at Chinese
libraries, museums, universities
and publishing house. For where
there is progress there is nation
alism.
Now’, as to the military side of
the conflict. To begin writh, one
must give full recognition to the
fact that in war a long-range gun
is better than a long-range philo
sophy and that the question of
the outcome of the war cannot be
answered except from a technical,
military angle. China admittedly
has a military equipment inferior
! to Japan's. She has longerrange
philosophy, but shorter-range ar
tillery. But that is not the whole
story. There are a number of
factors in China’s favor: a fair air
force, a fair-sized modernized
army, excellent fighting spirit,
,more land than Japan ever dares
to penetrate and occupy in a mili
tary sense and, above all, excell
ent leadership in Chiang Kai
shek, who is one of the best mili
tary tacticians of all the Orient.
There sits in Nanking an extra
ordinarily cool man, disinclined
to talk and even to explain him
sell to the Chinese people. Like
a good chess player, he cannot be
ruffled: he never shows his hand,
and chooses his own defense line
instead of letting his opponent
force it on him. The Chinese na
tion knows that he has a com
plete scheme of defense and of
fense.
We are watching a game of
chess, played by that cool Chin
ese and his more reckless, aggres
sive opponent. Aggressiveness,
we know, is a weak sign in chess
playing. Playing against consid
erable odds. “Old Chiang,” as we
call him, has to keep his head
cool and use tactics. In chess
tactics, often the sacrifice of a
good pawn is the only way to
avert defeat and bring about a
stalemate.
The fighting qualities of the
Chinese soldier are different from
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those of the Japanese. Essential
ly the Chinese soldier is like the
American doughboy or the British
Tommy, who goes to battle with
a laugh. He is a humorous fel
low, with or without his green
umbrella. The psychology of
stabbling a man through his ribs
is essentially the same whether
you use longer French bayonets
or shorter German bayonets or
Chinese big knives.
If anything, the Chinese chew
bah (nickname for a soldier, has
better nerves than many Euro
pean soldiers. His insensitivity
to pain is almost amazing, and he
is su used to hardships and suffer
ings that he might miss them if
they were absent. He has a nick
name for everybody, and he likes
or dislikes his captain as a man
and has not got an abject rever
ence for him as a commander.
Life to him is cheap. There is
no mystery about it. The Chin
ese philosophy is that when a
man dies, he is dead. No army
chaplain attempts to .make a dy
ing man confess his sins.
Genera! Gordon, who led a Chi
nese army and helped to smash
the Taiping Rebellion, discovered
that the Chinese private made an
excellent soldier if you gave him
a good captain. That he ran
away, for instance, in the Sino
French war of the middle nine
teenth century was not his fault,
because the Chinese scholar in
charge of ammunition had ab
sconded. There was no use firing
guns without bullets. That was
common sense.
i Military observers generally
agree on this point of the fighting
quality of the Chinese soldier.
The question today is merely re
duced to one of military organi
zation and equipment.
The Sino-Japanese conflict will
be, in my opinion, one of slow at
trition, not without ruinous up
sets in Japanese finance, until
both Japan and China are ready
to talk peace and the conflict is
ended by third-party mediation i
on a stalemate basis.
When the Chinese talk of war
; it is with the full realization of
' the sacrifices to be made. There
| will be tremendous sacrifices in
: the Chinese coastal cities, and the
people will suffer—but at suffer
ing the Chinese are a great peo
ple. Have they not known wars,
1 floods and famines every few
years? Are war, flood and fam
ine refugees a new thing in
China?
There will be bombing of civil
ian population in unfortified Chi
nese cities. But mere “frightful
, ness” will do no good from a mil
litary point of view. If this war
ends in a stalemate the virtual
I victory will be China’s.
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