JAPAN'S MAIN WEAKNESS
LOSS OF MANPOWER IN CHINA.
P.A. Cable.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10.
The new Chinese Ambassador, Mr Wei Tao-ming, declared that with sufficient equipment from America China could take the offensive. He added that the world might have un-der-estimated Japan, but Japan is still the same Japan. In fact, when the South Pacific war started she was positively weaker than before as the result of the 4J years of war against China. Japan's most important weakness is manpower, because she has lost in China 2,500,000 killed and wounded and now has many fronts which demand men. The present situation in the South Pacific is not due to Japan's strength but due to lack of effective co- operation among the democracies. When ■the democracies' strength is fully used Japan's defeat may come sooner than is expected. The Chungking newspaper Tagung Pao urges the United States to concentrate 10,000 planes in China to destroy Japan's air and naval forces.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 5
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158JAPAN'S MAIN WEAKNESS Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 240, 12 October 1942, Page 5
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