DODGED BIGGEST PUNCH
ALLIED PLANES IN CHINA CHUNGKING, Aug. 17 General Wedemeyer disclosed that the Japanese dodged the biggest offensive punch ever planned in the China theatre by counting themselves out of the war. The Allied drive against Canton was almost ready to begin. Allied naval units were detailed to cooperate with 20 Chinese divisions, American-trained, equipped with the latest arms and ready to hop off from bases recently won in the SouthChina corridor area. Large numbers of Chinese paratroops and commandos were poised to assist. Nineteen other Chinese divisions were in various phases of training and had been partly equipped.
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Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22691, 20 August 1945, Page 7
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