JAPANESE FEARS
POSSIBLE ALLIED BASES (Received Sept. 25, 11 a.m.) CHUNGKING, Sept. 24 The Japanese are seeking sites in the Kwantung and Fukien Provinces for large airfields to couunter possible Allied bases in East China from which Japan could be bombed. In stating this the Chinese army spokesman, Major-General Pao Kai, ascribed a recent. Japanese attack on Santao Island to fear of the harbour being used as an Allied submarine base. He said the Japanese were driven out the same day as they landed. The spokesman added that 13 engagements have occurred on different Chinese fronts in the past week, with the Japanese taking the initiative in five and the Chinese in eight.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22152, 25 September 1943, Page 5
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113JAPANESE FEARS Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22152, 25 September 1943, Page 5
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