JAPAN MAY BE ATTACKED
Reported Use Of Chinese Bases (10.40 p.m.) CHUNGKING, Mar. 4. Lieutenant-General Stillwell, a former military attache at Peiping, fias arrived on a special mission from Mr Roosevelt. Informed quarters believe that Lieutenant-General Stillwell is collaborating with Marshal Chiang Kai-shek in planning an offensive in which United States planes would attack from Chinese bases within striking range of Japan. Senator Tom Connally said in Washington that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was greatly encouraged after hearing the reports of Dr. Owen Lattimore, political adviser to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek, and Mr Manuel Fox, Economic Adviser to China. Senator Connally forecast that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek’s armies might become a great offensive factor in the war provided America was able to deliver sufficient planes, tanks and heavy guns to China. Both Dr. Lattimore and Mr Fox assured the Committee that Marshal Chiang Kai-shek was confident that China could defend the Burma Road and believed the Allies could safeguard the Road’s approaches, connections with which were being made via India.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22214, 6 March 1942, Page 5
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