POLICY OF ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1942, Page 4

POLICY OF ATTACK

ADVOCATED BV CHINESE SPOKESMEN ACTION IN THE PACIFIC. WOULD TAKE PRESSURE OFF RUSSIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.). CHUNGKING, July 15. “Both Germany and Japan are now making desperate bids, as they must, score successes in the summer in order to enable them to sustain a long war,” a Chinese spokesman stated. “Thus the duration of the war will be determined by the crucial three months ahead.” He expressed an opinion that if the Allies could win back some of the Japanese positions in the South-West Pacific this summer, the psychological as well as material blow to Japan would be tremendous. The Minister of Information, Mr Wang Shih, said an Allied offensive, launched from Australia against the Japanese in New Guinea and by the British in Burma, would have the same effect as a second front in Europe. German pressure on Russia could be relieved by new Allied counter-attacks both in west and east —in Europe and the Pacific. The Japanese were ready at all times to attack Russia and therefore attacks on. Japan in the Pacific would, take pressure off Russia.