FOR CHINA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 November 1945, Page 5

FOR CHINA

HUNDREDS OF U.S. PLANES MASS FLIGHT FROM INDIA AND BURMA Shanghai, Nov. 27. Virtually every’flyable plane in India and Burma is being flown over the hump to China presumably for presen. tation to the Chinese Government, reports the correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. About, 700 fighters and transports are at present involved in one of the greatest mass flights in the China-Burma-India theatre in such miserable weather that already several lives have been lost in crashes. Eleven of the 22 Mustangs flying from Kunming to the Shanghai area crashed on Thursday when they encountered terrific weather. Lieut.General Stratemeyer, the Air Force’s commander, declined to discuss the flight because the. crashes were under investigation. It was learned from other sources that all flights were ordered by the War Department and no instructions have yet been received regarding the disposal of the aircraft, but even top air officers say with a wink t! ~t the planes will undoubtedly be given to China. The Chinese press recently reported that America had decided to give over 1300 planes to Chungking, but the War Department stated that the number had not been decided. United States lend-lease officials in Shanghai indicated strongly that all flyable planes in China would be returned to the United States on the termination of lend-lease. American airmen are debating angrily whether they ought to be risking their lives three months after the end of the war. NATIONALIST FORCES ADVANCE Chungking, Nov. 27. Nationalist forces are reported to have advanced unopposed 40 miles along the Peiping-Mukden railway to Kowpangtze, 90 miles from Mukden. KAI-SHEK DEFINES ATTITUDE Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek addressing the Supreme Economic Council, defined his attitude to Communists. “Some people have placed partisan and personal interests above national interests and gone so far as to interfere violently with the Government’s efforts to establish order in the liberated areas. The Government is acting to correct this condition and will spare no effort to bring internal order and security to the nation.”