MORE STRIKING POWER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1942, Page 3

MORE STRIKING POWER

NEEDED IN CHINA VIEW OF “NEW YORK TIMES.” BOMBING BASE NOT YET GAINED (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, September 28. The Chinese Counter-offensive appears to have halted just short of its consummation, says the “New York Times” in an editorial. “The capture of Kinhwa would have given American bombers a base within reach of Japan. The capture of Canton would, perhaps, have rendered possible severance of the Japanese sea communications in southestern Asia and negated the hopes of’ the Japanese of attacking India. “The Chinese are all but impregnable in defence, and they surge back with almost tidelike regularity after every defeat, but they lack the power for offence, without which they will never be able to deliver the death blow. Therefore, the United Nations must provide the Chinese with offensive power, planes, artillery, munitions, and technical personnel.”

STEADY PROGRESS MADE BY CHINESE ARMIES. NEED OF RECONQUERING BURMA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 27. Encouraging reports of the Chinese progress in Chekiang have reached New Delhi. The Chinese, attacking at several points, have penetrated deep into enemy territory. They have started to attack Kweiki and Kunghse, which are re- 1 spectively 50 and 75 miles north-east of Kinhwa. Addressing a meeting of the Aid to) China Fund in London today, the Chinese Ambassador to Britain, Dr. Wellington Koo, said that after the defeat of Germany, he did not think that Japan, now in the £rip of a military dictatorship, would willingly lay down her arms. He stressed the importance of recapturing Burma as quickly as possible, and said that only in this way could vital supplies of war material' be sent to China. China’s ability to wage a war for her existence, and at the same time , press through a vital stage in her economic and social development, was the subject of a warm tribute by the Home Secretary, Mr Morrison, at Manchester. Britain’s power of improvisation during the war had been paralleled in China, which within five years had built up alone, literally out of nothing, an effective resistance against one of the most powerfully armed and aggressively minded nations in the world's history.

AMERICAN PLANES RAIDING ALONG BURMA ROAD. ATTACKS ON ENEMY CONVOYS. American bombers and fighters have made a series of raids along the Burma Road. They swept down yesterday on convoys of enemy lorries and troops. All the planes got back.