JAPANESE GAINS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1942, Page 3

JAPANESE GAINS

IN EASTERN CHINA AERODROME CITY TAKEN. FOOCHOW ALSO ENTERED BY ENEMY. LONDON, June 7. Chungking says the Japanese have occupied the aerodrome at Chuhsien, in Chekiang province, after a concentrated onslaught. This aerodrome is one from which the Japanese mainland could be bombed. The Japanese have also entered Foochow. According to an earlier message from Chungking, high Chinese quarters declared that they had received information that high Japanese diplomats after a tour of south China recently submitted the following recommendations to Tokio: First, dispose of the China incident at any cost; secondly shelve the Russian problem till the China affair was settled or well on the way toward settlement; thirdly, minimise the effect of future Allied warfare against Japanese shipping by insuring overland rail communications with French Indo-China. It is believed, says a correspondent of the Associated Press that Japan will first seek to obtain full control of the Peking-Hankow and CantonHankow railways, thus bisecting China. ~ . A speech made by General Chiang Kai-shek on June 2 was , released today. In it he asserted that China has passed her most dangerous crisis. “There is decidedly no danger of our being subjugated by the enemy, he said. "We must endure the present extreme difficulties. We must do our utmost to recover our lost territories and those of our allies, and we must also help in the emancipation of all peoples who are now under the yoke of the aggressors/’ THREAT TO RAILWAY . STRONG CHINESE OPPOSITION. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) CHUNGKING, June 7. The Associated Press of America states that the Chinese Command announces that the Japanese penetrated Chuhsien. It adds that the Chinese launched a concentrated counter-attack with a view to preventing a junction of the two Japanese drives in Kiangsi and Chekiang. A military spokesman explains that such a junction would give the enemy control over an interprovincial railway and also possibly trap large Chinese forces.