CHINA'S WAR IN AIR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 151, 28 June 1943, Page 5

CHINA'S WAR IN AIR

FEW PLANES WOULD HELP NEW YORK, June 26. One per cent, of the United States annual warplane production—B4o machines—would be enough for China, said General Chen Chen? to war correspondents on the Upper Yangtze front. General Chen did not think China would receive that many, however "We have fought for nearly six years on morale. It is evident that we need a bigger air force and more heavy guns." General Chen is aged 47 and is one of China's leading generals. He was hastily summoned from Yunnan io turn | back the recent Japanese threat to I Chungking. He expressed the bebef that the Japanese were not in a position to renew the attacks as tnev did not have enough troops* in China to do so. , . Allied patrols have been active in the Chin Hills, in Burma, thrusting deep behind the westward limit of the Japanese positions along the Fort White-Kalemyo road, embarrassing Japanese communications, according to an Allahabad message. The Japanese seem, to be confined to | I this road, to which they moved up last j month, probably with the object of occupying the Chin Hills as monsoon \ quarters, and to secure their left flank for their Upper Burma defences against j raids. These objects, says the message, l have not been achieved, and the JapI anese have now been halted. .