ATTACK JAPAN!

Grey River Argus, 1 May 1942, Page 5

ATTACK JAPAN!

Before Her Consolidation CHINESE STRATEGIST'S ADVICE. (Rec. 10.25). WASHINGTON. April 30. General Hsuing Shih Fei, Chief of the Chinese Military Mission to Washington,. told a press conference that the lack of coi-ordination among the Allies had enabled Japan, after four years of exhausting war against China, to win notable victories in the South-west Pacific, while there had also been co-ordinated an Axis strategy that was apparently designed to join the Nazis and Japanese by way of the Persian Gulf. General Hsung Shi Fei said 'that the Allies could not formulate a common strategy until Japan took the> initiative, but now the Japanese must not he allowed to exploit their conquests. Japan recently had acquired inexhaustible supplies of rubber, oil, sugar, and rice. . These would make Japan almost impregnable if the Pacific war were prolonged. Therefore, the Japanese must not be given a breathing spell for further conquests. He said tna'C there were at present twenty-nine and a half Japanese Divisions in China, each comprising eighteen thousand to twenty-five thousand men He also expressed the opinion that a Russian-Japanese war was inevitable, but it could not. b piloted "'I'“ iuNGK U G , April 24. The Chinese Foreign Office spokesman here urged an intensification of Allied offensive action Japan. He said Japan could be easilv licked by a timely, effectne blovZ While it was only natural that Britain and Russia should placthe defeat of Germany above all eKe, it was equally natural that China the United States and the other ’ Pacific Nations should regard Arran’s defeat as being the more important. Japan’s lengthening ofc her lines of defence and of communication, the dispersion of hey forces and a shortage of transport would’ all go to prove that Japan was more stupid and more brittle than Germany.