INDIA’S CO-OPERATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 55, 6 March 1942, Page 3

INDIA’S CO-OPERATION

APPRECIATION IN CHINA • Reed. 10.5 p.m.) Chungking, March 4. President Lin Sen, oroadcasting to India, thanked India for co-operation and participation in the war against I Japan, and added: “The world will (necessarily be different after victory and India will demonstrate a new glory in the world.’’ He explained that it was Chiang Kai-shek s mission in India to discuss concrete plans of co-operation ana establish a common goal for both countries. , President Lin Sen concluded: —Chinese and Indians are united for |the destruction of the forces of agjgression. ’ Informed quarters interpret this iradio address as evidence that Chiang Kai-shek recently won promises o. substantial war aid from India. Rugby, March 4. The prospects of supplying Free .China through India are commented on by the weekly journal Economist, lin reference to the new road which leads from Chittagong over the Assam Mountains in close proximity to the southern frontier oi Tibet io Chungking. ' One of the main functions of General Chiang Kai-snek’s visit to India was agreement on the final plans lor icompletion of the use ol this stupenIdou.s mountain highway," the Econo--1 mist says. The possioility that the !Burma Road might eventually be 'closed was foreseen by the Generalis.simo as long ago as 1939. and work on the new road was started by March. :1940. Its construction, unfortunately, (was delayed by the hostility of the (Tibetan people, who have a~ hatred oi (foreigners on religious grounds an<. have memories of an earlier* Chinese incursion. This hostility, of course, is (being exploited by the Japanese, bin i. .is believed that, the Tibetan suspicion.' iliave now been allayed. I •’Details of the route and the progress of the construction are not disclosed by the Chinese authorities, but it is est.mated that three-fifths of the road are complete. Some 40.000 (Chinese coolies are busy on the remaining part and the work is proceeding fas’. The project is breathtaking and is to be taken seriously. The ’Chinese estimate the interval between lhe closing of the Burma Road and the opening of the Assam highway ai'i be short enough to guarantee sura I.’ ‘ 8.0.W.