CHINA'S PART

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 152, 29 June 1945, Page 5

CHINA'S PART

MORE HELP WANTED

Chiang's Men "Can Beat Japs

Quicker Than Allies"

Rec. 1.30. CHUNGKING, June 28.

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, in his first Press conference since 1941, said that the United Nations were not giving China enough economic help. He urged that more American economic experts be sent to China and claimed that Chinese soldiers, given the equipment and training, would defeat the Japanese quicker than foreign troops. "The United States," the Marshal said, "is giving us assistance and equipment and training our troops, but inadequate attention is given to our economic difficulties and inadeSuate assistance" to relieve them. If tie economic situation is not improved, it will be difficult to make full use of the military equipment." Referring to the co-operation of the American Ambassador in China, General Patrick Hurley, and General Wedemeyer, commander of the United States forces in the China theatre, Marshal Chiang Kaishek said: "It is the first time in Chinese-American history that action and co-operation have been so satisfactory." He said that he believed a landing on the Chinese mainland would be necessary to open a port for supplies to the Chinejse forces, even if there was a landing on the Japanese mainland. He estimated that 100,000 puppet Chinese troops were fighting with the Japanese and predicted that if an invasion occur-, red a large number would join the I Allies.

The Chinese High Command announced that the Chinese forces battling for Liuchow have seized part of the former American airfield to the south of the city, and captured a railway station in the western suburbs of the city. Reinforced Japanese troops counterattacked to the south-east of the city but were repulsed. The Japanese have withdrawn further north along the Chekiang coastal highway from Wenchow.