FROM CHINESE BASES?

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 7

FROM CHINESE BASES?

OFFENSIVE BY U.S.

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WASHINGTON, March 4. Lieut.-General Stilwell, former military attache in Peking, has arrived at Chungking on a special mission for President Roosevelt. Informed quarters in Chungking believe lhat he is to collaborate with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in planning an offensive hi which United States planes would attack from Chinese bases within striking range of Japan. ; Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, sai'd today that the committee had been greatly encouraged after hearing the reports of Mr. Owen Lattimore, political adviser to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and Mr. Manuel Fox, economic adviser to China. Senator Connally forecast that the Chinese armies might become a great offensive factor in the war, provided that America was able to deliver sufficient planes, tanks, and heavy guns to China. DEFENCE OF BURMA ROAD. Both .Mr. Lattimore and Mr. Fox the Senator said, had assured the committee that Marshal Chiang Kaishek was confident that China could defend the Burma ifoad successfully, and believed that the Allies could safeguard the approaches to the road, connections with which were being made via India. The President of China, Mr. Lin Shen, in a broadcast to India today, thanked India for her co-operation and participation in the war against Japan, and added: "The world will necessarily be different after victory, and India will demonstrate a new glory in the world." He explained that it was Marshal •Chiang Kai-shek's mission in India to discuss concrete plans of co-operation and establish a common goal for both countries. Mr. Lin Shen concluded: "The Chinese and Indians are united for the destruction of the forces of agression." Informed quarters in Chungking interpret this radio address as evidence that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek recently won promises of substantial war aid from India.