Colonel Lin Says China Will Stand Firm Against Japanese Advances in Jehol--Maintains League Will Give No Help

"China realizes she must fight for herself now and she will stand firm and stop Japan's advances," declared Colonel H. H. Lin, heroic defender of China's Woosung forts during the fighting around Shanghai during February, 1932. In a special interview with the CRIMSON, Colonel Lin yesterday boldly stated that China will fight desperately for Manchuria.

"Unlike last year's campaign, this one is being fought in uncivilized, wild, hilly country in Jehol, where the Chinese will mass together and slowly stop the Japanese advances," Colonel Lin continued. "All China is banded together now, and the armies are fighting to the last man.

"I am confident that Japan will be stopped and then go to her destruction. Yes, she is like Germany in 1914. Her internal economic structure is crumbling now, and a reverse will send her to destruction."

"Japan promised to take the Woosung forts in 1932 in three hours, and she couldn't take them at all during her long attacks on Shanghai. Yet these forts were anciently equipped, poorly named, and in terrible want of men and ammunition. But just as the Japanese could not take those forts new, so their boast to take Jehol in 15 days will lead to the result that they will not conquer the province in 150 days!

"As to the League of Nations." China will absolutely stay with the League, although she now realizes she will get no aid from it. If Japan wants to disregard all principles of peace and make war in Manchuria, then China will fight back. She will fight and defend herself. We do not yet know her objective except that it is to drive Japan from Manchuria, but the Chinese armies are now in a far better position to combat the Japanese armies than in 1932."

"If the Chinese, however, must fall back for a while, and lose Peking or Tlentsin to the Japanese, the trouble will involve the foreign legations situated in those cities. At present the situation is not as serious in that respect as it was at Shanghai, for the probability of Japan advancing far is very small."

Ever since the Sine-Japanese war the Nipponese have been frustrated in their territorial ambitions on the mainland by the combination of the European powers.