The Northern Advocate "NORTHLAND FIRST" Registered for transmission through the post as a Newspaper. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1943. QUEBEC POINTS A GUN AT JAPAN

Northern Advocate, 25 August 1943, Page 2

The Northern Advocate "NORTHLAND FIRST" Registered for transmission through the post as a Newspaper. WEDN ESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1943. QUEBEC POINTS A GUN AT JAPAN

BELIEF that the Quebec meeting of Mr. Churchill, President Roosevelt, Dr. Soong. and heads of the armed forces and diplomatic corps of Britain, the United States and China would lie mainly concerned with the war in the Pacific was apparently well founded, for we are told today sufficient to show that far-reaching moves against Japan have been adopted. Mr. Churchill made a pronouncement at the conclusion of the conference, giving a general outline of the decisions reached, but said characteristically that details of the plans would be made known to the Japanese when they were put in operation. In spite of the justifiable reticence of Mr. Churchill as the spokesman for the United Nations who were present at the Quebec conference, it is declared that the whole field of world operations was surveyed in the light of the gratifying events which have taken place since May. While concerted action in other theatres is to be continued and intensified, it is evident that British, Americans and Chinese are to concentrate a mighty force against Japan. Not only is the war against island bases oi the Japanese in the Pacific to be waged with ever-increasing severity, but there is clearly to be made an assault by way of China. This, of necessity, means that China must be strengthened by the United Nations. Signs of preparations to achieve this end have been discernible lately, in the shape of renewed activity on a larger scale in Burma. Yesterday, Major-General Stratomeyer, who has been appointed co-ordinating air officer of American air forces in China, Burma and India, made a statement at New Delhi which is decidedly interesting in face of the decisions of the Quebec conference. He said that, in accordance with President Roosevelt’s pledge to give increased assistance to China, the United States would send great reinforcements of troops and equipment. A correspondent, cabling from New Delhi, says new moves in Asia are clearly indicated. He adds that apparently the general’s task is to push air strength to General Chennault, American commander in China, and also to increase the activities of the United States’ Tenth Air Force over Burma, Thailand and the Bay of Bengal. This means that there is more than rhetoric in the declaration of intention to attempt the reopening of the Burma Road, in order to supply China with the assistance in men and equipment she requires to continue successfully her opposition to Japan during the past six years, and, with the aid oi the United Nations, strike a deadly blow at her enemy. The reopening of the Burma Road is obviously an enterprise fraught with great difficulties, but it must be carried through. The aim of the United Nations is to put Japan upon the defensive against continental and oceanic attacks launched simultaneously. The steady stream of United States troops and war material to New Zealand and other points in the South-West Pacific has undoubtedly given the United Nations tremendous striking power which, when let loose on a major scale, will place Japan in a precarious position. , In spite of critics who have urged greater speed in the Allies prosecution of the Pacific war, the United Nations have adopted the principle of “making haste slowly. Now they have appnieutly reached a stave when they feel they may safely launch a major campaign. Quebec has given the enemy food for thought. Meanwhile Mr. Churchill is taking a fishing holiday. He will doubtless have highly interesting information to disclose when he returns. _