CHINESE ON WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 6

CHINESE ON WAR

, COMMUNIQUES CRITICISED

Recvl p.m. CHUNGKING, Dec. 5. Chinese troops regained Pachai, 65 miles south-east of Kweiyang. The Japanese had previously penetrated within 60 miles of Kweiyang. The communique announced that crack ■ Chinese regiments from the north-west had moved towards Kweichow. Tushan, which the Japanese previously claimed to have captured, remains in Chinese hands. , Th£ Chinese Press gives prominence to President Chiang Kai-shek's state.ment.that the Japanese would make ! another strategic error if they went deeper into Kweichow Province. With .unusual frankness, the newspaper 'Takung Pao" criticised Chungking's puzzling, inaccurate communiques which are causing public uneasiness." Consequently," the paper said, People did not believe what they were told and rumours were advancing more quickly than the Japanese." _ "Takung Pao" urged the Chinese Command to move towards Kweiyang and to show a fighting spirit, moving forward and not backward. Observers in Chungking, however, I are more concerned with the possibility of a Japanese advance to Kunming. The Japanese are known to have thrust up the Yu River, but the communiques [have not mentioned this important development. General Wedemeyer's communique reports that General Chennault's aircraft in the central and South China areas destroyed \ river shipping and much railway rolling stock in the Tungting Lake area* and bombed bridges on the Salween front.

SOONG APPOINTMENT

WASHINGTON, December 5. The Chinese news service says that according to the latest reports from Chungking, Dr. Kung is retaining his post as Vice-President of the Executive Yuan. Mr. T. V. Soong is appointed to take charge concurrently while Dr. Kung is on his mission in the United States.

A previous announcement was that Mr. Soong was replacing Dr. Kung.