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TORONTO DAILY STAR
TORONTO, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941
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CHINA'S PROGRESS ' AMAZING' AMID HARDSHIPS OF WAR

Resourceful People not Weakening--Believed Unconquerable By Japs
it is highly improbable the Japanese ever will conquer China. The view was expressed by rev. R. S. Longley of the United Church of Canada, who recently arrived home after 34 years in the Chinese mission fields.
"It is amazing the progress China is making. These years of warfare have in reality been reconstruction years. Railroads and motor roads are being built; airways are being planned; industrial plants are rising, and schools and colleges have come into existence.
"Although Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is a virtual dictator, he is nevertheless a man of high ideals. His wife ,who deserves the title, is the first lady of the land.
"Chungking, the wartime capital," said Mr. Longley, "was literally bombed, out of existence, but the Chinese are very resourceful and they quickly rehabilitate themselves. Soon they had temporary dwelling and places of business built and were carrying on as usual.
"China has an army of four or five million men. The officers are educated, but the private soldier is largely a military slave who has been drafted. In the end, however, he goes to the front a hardened soldier and a red-hot fighter.
"For the last two years the Japs have been held to the east side of a range of mountains which separates east China from west China. Several times, when they have tried to cross these mountains, they have met with disaster. They could go around the ends if there weren't too many Chinese waiting for them.
"Behind this ranged of mountains," continued Mr. Longley, "the Chinese are constantly training and organizing eventually to drive the Japs from China. The Japs are using every method to force the morphine trade on the Chinese. The lower and more ignorant classes are the Jap's victims.
"The teachings of Confucius, which in no way conflict with those of Christianity, are the back-bone of Chinese culture," Mr. Langley concluded.

C. B. C. STAFF TO GET LIVING COST BONUS
Ottawa, Spet. 16--(CP)--C. B. C. employees will be granted a cost-of-living bonus, effective Oct. 1, on the same scale as the federal civil service. Dr. A. Frigon, assistant general manager of C. B. C. was made at a meeting of the C. B. C. governors Monday.
Employees earning less than $2,100 a year and all manual workers--between 400 and 500 persons--will receive the bonus. It will remain in effect until April 1, when it will be reviewed.