FIGHT FOR KINHWA

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 3, 29 September 1942, Page 5

FIGHT FOR KINHWA

May Be Beyond China’s Strength BOMB-JAP AN BASE NOT YET GAINED (By Telegraph. —Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received September 28, 9.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 28. The Chinese counter-offensive appears to have halted just short of its consummation, says the “New York Times” in an editorial. “The capture of Kinhwa would have given American bombers a base within reach of Japan. The capture of Canton would, perhaps, have rendered possible severance of the Japanese sea communications in south-eastern Asia and negated the hopes of the Japanese ol attacking India. , “The Chinese are all but impregnable in defence, and they surge back with almost tidelike regularity after every defeat, but they lack the power for offence, without which they will never be able to deliver the death blow. Therefore, the United Nations must provide the Chinese with offensive power, planes, artillery, munitions, and technical personnel.”

DEEP PENETRATION BY CHINESE North-East Chekiang (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 27. Encouraging reports of the Chinese progress in Chekiang have reached New Delhi. The Chinese, attacking at several joints, have pitenetrated deep into enemy territory. They have Started to attack Kwfeikt and Kunghse, which are respectively 50 and 75 miles north-cast of Kinhwa. Addressing a meetilig of the Aid .to China Fund in London today, the Chinese Ambassador to. Britain, Dr. VV eilington Koo, said that after the defeat of Germany, he did not think that Japan, now in the grip of a military dictatorship, would willingly lay down her arms. Ha stressed the importance of recapturing Burma as quickly as possible, and san, •that only in this Way could vital supplies of war material be sent to China. China’s ability to wage a war for Her existence qnd at the same, time press through a vital stage in her economic and social development was the subject of a warm, tribute by the Home Secretary, Mr. Morrison,', at Manchester. Britain’s poWer of improvisation during the War had been paralleled ill China, which within five years had built up alone, literally out. of nothing, an effective resistance against one of the most powerfully armed and aggressively minded nations in the world s history.