BEATING JAPAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1943, Page 3

BEATING JAPAN

IMMEDIATE OFFENSIVE BY ALLIES ADVOCATED BY CHIANG KAI-SHEK. AGREEMENT NEEDED ALSO ON POST-WAR POLICY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) CHUNGKING. July 6. Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, in a message to the peoples of the United Nations, urged an immediate largescale Allied offensive against Japan to thwart Japan’s ability to regear s and replenish her war machine, and also in order to reduce the time and price which must be paid for Allied victory. “Now is the opportune moment for the United Nations to reap great results within a relatively short time,” ho declared: “Just as Germany vainly hopes for dissension in the United Nations. Japan is praying that the United Nations will delay the big offensive against her. What disquiets the Chinese is not whether the United Nations will win the war. but when and at what price. Japan, in one sense, is at her weakest: her ready resources are approaching the point of exhaustion. Our Allies can count upon the determination of the Chinese to contribute whatever is within their power, and to make whatever sacrifices arc necessary.” Chiang Kai-Shek urged that China. Britain, Russia and America before the end cf the war should reach an agreement on post-war policy. He advocated the immediate establishment cf joint machinery for the winning of the peace; also for post-war world organisation backed by international force to safeguard international justice and ensure the successful functioning of democratic governments. MR. CHURCHILL’S MESSAGE. A London cablegram states that the Prime Minister. Mr Churchill, sent to Generalissimo Chaing Kai-Shek the greetings of the British people. He stated that neither China nor Britain was ever likely to underestimate the colossal difficulties and immense battles which still lie before them. The road would not be without setbacks and disappointments, but the pattern of events was now becoming clear. The initiative was being wrested from the grasp of the enemy and we could look forward with confidence and hope to a time when all over the world aggressors were driven to unconditional surrender. When this was accomplished, Mr Churchill added, he had no doubt that Anglo-Chinese collaboration, tested and tempered in the fire of war, would play its rightful part in the solution of the problems of peace.