CHINESE ARMIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 February 1944, Page 4

CHINESE ARMIES

REVITALISATION BEGUN

CONCRETE AMERICAN AID.

AMBITIOUS AND FAR-REACHING PROGRAMMES.

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) CHUNGKING, February 28.

The revitalisation of General Chiang Kai-shek's armies has begun with the arrival of concrete American aid, says the Amalgamated Press correspondent with the Chinese expeditionary forces. A staff of American officers and men, under the command of General Stilwell is now engaged on the most ambitious and far-reaching programmes in military history to modernise and requip the vast Chinese, army in critical areas where they will do the Japanese the most harm. Since last April travelling American instruction groups and liaison teams have been in the field with the Chinese armies teaching tactics and increasing the Chinese fighting efficiency through the distribution of new American weapons,, including anti-aircraft guns, mountain artillery, anti-tank guns and radio signal equipment. As a result some of the large units of the Chinese army after seven debilitating years of defensive struggle, at last are beginning to think in terms of taking the offensive and driving the Japanese from the mainland.