INDOMITABLE CHINA
CAN HOLD OUT FOR YEARS BUT OPENING OF BURMA ROAD WOULD SHORTEN WAR. STATEMENT BY COMMANDER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) CHUNGKING, March 23. China can hold out for 100 years even without the reopening of the Burma Road, which is necessary for a quick ending of the war. —The Central News quotes an unnamed commander in western Yunnan Province .for this statement. The commander, who is described as one of China’s most brilliant soldiers of the entire war, revealed than 2000 Japanese who reached the west bank of the Salween on March 12, were repulsed by the Chinese defenders on the east bank, aided by Chinese guerillas who attacked the Japanese in the rear. Today’s Chinese communique says that the Chinese have recovered most of the heights round Hwajung, in Hupeh Province, and are at present attacking the enemy inside the city, where fighting is going on. Severe but inconclusive fighting continues in the Hupeh-Honan border area, south of the Yangtse. The Chinese repulsed two Japanese columns driving north from Kwangchowan.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 3
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