ATTACK ON JAPANESE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 October 1942, Page 3

ATTACK ON JAPANESE

IN BURMA & PACIFIC URGED STRONGLY IN CHINA. NEW AMBASSADOR TO U.S.A. GIVES FACTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Ndon.) CHUNGKING, October 9. The, Chinese Press urges the United Nations to launch a campaign to drive the Japanese from Burma. The “Daily News” says the Chinese are prepared and anxious to attack Burma as soon as General Wavell realises the importance of the campaign and begins the overdue task of reconquest. The newspaper “Ta Kung Pao” urges the United States to concentrate ten thousand planes in China to destroy Japan’s air and naval forces. A Washington message states that the new Chinese Ambassador (Mr Wei Tao-Ming) declared that, with sufficient equipment from America, China could take the offensive.

He added: “The world may have under-estimated Japan, but Japan is still the same Japan. In fact when the South Pacific war started she was positively weaker than before as u result of her 4J. years of war against China. Japan’s most important weakness, is in manpower, because she has lost hitherto in China 21 million killed and wounded and now has many fronts demanding men. The present situation in the South Pacific is not due to Japan’s strength, but to a lack of effective co-operation among the democracies. When our strength is fully used, Japan's defeat may come sooner than we expect.”