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GENERAL CHIANG KAI-SHEK RETURN FROM INDIA (Rec. 11 pjn.) CHUNGKING. Feb. 24. The Government spokesman announced that General Cbiang Kai-shek returned from India by air, foreshadowing the establishment of regular air transport. • „ t . . The spokesman reiterated that China is self-sufficient in food, has enough clothing, can manufacture light arms, and has a quantity of heavy equipment waiting to be shipped to the front. Essential war materials which are not bulky, including medicines, arc required via India. j The spokesman gave little hope of the hard-pressed British in Lower Burma being reinforced by the Chinese who are pouring into Burma, because none have reached the southern front as yet. i
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24851, 26 February 1942, Page 5
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