NO HOLDING BACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 January 1942, Page 3

NO HOLDING BACK

IN AMERICAN WAR EFFORT

STATEMENTS BY ROOSEVELT & OTHERS. ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE IN PACIFIC. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 21. President Roosevelt, at a Press conference, said the United States was contributing to the war against the 'Axis in almost .every part of the globe. President Roosevelt’s remarks are understood as being intended to reassure China and Australia, where some uneasiness is reported regarding the possibility of priority being given to the battle against Hitler over the battle against Japan, in the matter of American aid. It is reported that when his attention was called to these reports President Roosevelt replied • that nobody need have any fear at all “as we are doing the best we can.” The Chinese Ambassador, President Roosevelt asserted, fully undcutands the situation. Senator George, in a short-wave message to China, said: "Developments will demonstrate that England and the United States propose to give all possible assistance, in conjunction with China, in the war in the middle and southern Pacific. Your doubts and fears are understandable to me and yet they are not correctly founded. When their basis is analysed in light of the plain facts you will see that there is no foundation whatever for any doubt of comradeship and the fullest co-opera-tion of your sister nation across the Pacific.” Official Chinese circles in London (another message reports) know nothing concerning the statements attributed to Dr. Sun Fo regarding a separate Chinese peace. They pointed out that China has just signed the joint Allied pledge not to make a separate peace, and certainly she will not be false to her signature. . COST IN LIVES THE JAPANESE ADVANCE IN MALAYA. CHUNGKING, January 21. The Chinese Intelligence Department Jreports that 5000 wounded Japanese are crowding the Saigon Hospital. Urns containing the ashes of another 5000 Japanese are awaiting shipment to Japan, attesting to the high cost of the march toward Singapore.