COMPARATIVE LULL
ON THE CHINESE FRONT APPARENTLY PRECEDES STORM. STATEMENT BY MILITARY SPOKESMAN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) CHUNGKING, October 4. There is a comparative lull on the China front because China cannot launch a major counter-offensiv? before the arrival of heavy equipment from abroad and Japan cmmor start a large-scale campaign in- China because she fears major Allied blows in Burma and the South Pacific. The newly-appointe.i English-speak-ing Chinese military spokesman, Ma-jor-General C. C. Tseng, made this statement to foreign Press correspondents. He added: “Howe/cf, the present lull apparently precedes a storm, and it would be wrong to suppose that China is neglecting the duhcs of the global war.” The Japanese drives in the Chekiang, Kiangsi and Anhwei Provinces in China have gained mo ’e ground m the direction of. Hangchow, the capital of Chekiang, and Nanking. Japanese aerial bombing has forced the Chinese to give up several towns.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1943, Page 3
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