WAR CONFERENCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25304, 14 August 1943, Page 5

WAR CONFERENCE

MR CHURCHILL’S MISSION NOW IN UNITED STATES QUEBEC, Aug. 12. Mr Churchill is en route to the United States to meet Mr Roosevelt. This official announcement follows yesterday’s official statement that Mr Roosevelt was coming to Canada to meet Mr Churchill. Mr Chuifchill crossed the Canadian border at Niagara Falls to-day, and continued his journey, but his destination is not known. The National Broadcasting Company’s commentator, Mr Richard Harkness. broadcasting from Quebec, said Canadian sources were under the imnression that Mr Churchill might go to Russia with a message for Marshal Stalin when. the Allied talks were finished. Mr Harkness said that Marshal Stalin could hardly take part in a conference dealing with Pacific war strategy and aimed at Japan, with which Russia was at peace. He added that the London censors had passed a message saying that a high British military officer would probably go to Moscow to give Stalin a full report of the talks. “If my sources are correct this officer may be Mr Churchill himself, and the betting is good that his talks with Stalin will deal principally with a real second front, in Europe.”

The Chinese press is urging the Roosevelt-Churchill conference to give full attention to the strategy against Japan, particularly to the strengthening of the Chinese offensive. The army newspaper Sao Tang Pao says the duration of the war will be lengthened if an offensive cannot be launched on the Chinese front at the same time as the offensives on other fronts.