PEOPLE'S COUNCIL
STATUS ALTERED IN CHINA CHUNGKING, February 24. , The Chinese Government today announced tbtiat the number of V-lected representatives on the St'eople's Political Council would be increased. This is regarded as a fiii.'st step towards establishing a fluilly democratic Government for C' 4 una. VThe Government spokesman sa&1: "We are very hopeful, that India will achieve her freedom. Tii-41 would be a contribution to the; freedom of the whole world." Thia Government spokesman alsfc annoiajiced that Marshal Chiang Kaishek 1\ as returned from India by air, foreshadowing the establishment of regulai: Air transport. The cifficial reiterated that China; is self-sufficient in food, has enough clothing, can manufacture light arms, and has, a quantity of heavy, equipment waiting "to be shipped to the front Essential but unbulky war materials, including medicines, are required via India. The spokesman gave little hope, of the hard-^pressed British in Lower Burma be ling reinforced by the Chinese who are pouring into Burma, because none, he laid, .have reached the southern front yas yet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 48, 26 February 1942, Page 7
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