CONQUEST OF CHINA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 133, 8 June 1942, Page 6

CONQUEST OF CHINA

URGENT AIM OF JAPAN

CHUNGKING, June 5,

High Chinese quarters declare that they had received information that high Japanese diplomats alter a tour of south China recently submitted the following recommendations to Tokio: First, dispose of the China incident at any cost. Secondly, shelve t**e. Russian problem till the China affair is settled or \ well on the ; way towards settlement.' Thirdly, minimise, the effect of future ' Allied warfare . against " Japanese shipping by ; insuring overland rail communications with French Indo-China. ! It is believed, says a correspondent !of the Associated Press., that Japan will first seek to obtain full control of the Peking-Hankow and Canton - I Hankow .railways, thus bisecting China. . A speech made by General Chiang Kai-shek ori June 2 was released today. In it he asserted that China has passed her most dangerous crisis. NO DANGER OF DEFEAT. "There is decidedly no danger of our being; subjugated by the enemy," he said. • "We must' endure the present extreme difficulties. We must do our utmost to recover our lost territories and; those of our Allies, arid we must also help in the emancipation of all peoples who are .now'under the yoke of the aggressors." The Japanese hurled 100,000 troops in fierce new onslaughts against Chuhsien, which cost tljem 10,000 casualties in two days. Official Chinese reports described this as one of the bloodiest.battles of the past two years in China. The Chinese have recaptured Lingshanchen, north-east of Chuhsien. 1 The Japanese are also meeting with stiff, resistance in their thrust northward from Canton.

New Japanese attempts to cross the upper Salween;-in Yunnan, v/ere repulsed.