OFFENSIVE HALTED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 230, 29 September 1942, Page 3

OFFENSIVE HALTED

Outside Strategic Town Of Kinhwa UPRISING IN CANTON 9.30 a.m. CHUNGKING, Sept. 28. The Chinese counter-offensive appears to have halted just short of consummation, says the New York Times in an editorial. The capture of Kinhwa would have given the Ameriean bombers a base within reach of Japan and the eapture of Canton would perhaps have rendered possible the severance of Japanese sea communications with south-eastern Asia and thus negated Japanese hopes of attacking India. The Chinese, all but impregnable in defence, surge back with almost tide-like regularity after every defeat, but they laek the power for an offensive and without it they will never be able to deliver a death blow. Therefore, the newspaper says, the United Nations must provide the Chinese offensive with the power of planes, artillery, munitions and technical personnel. Formosan and Korean troops in Canton inflicted 1000 casualties on the Japanese in an uprising, says the New China Daily. Eighty-eight Koreans and four Formosans were afterward executed.