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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 8, 1941.
JAPANESE STRATEGISTS BAFFLED BY STALEMATE
IN "CHINA AFFAIR"
JAPAN'S CURRENT offensive in the interior
of China were described recently by foreign military BOMBS
observers in Shanghai as but a continuance of tactics which have held the Japanese at a virtual stalemate for the past 30 months.
These sources expressed belief that the Japan- ese attacks actually are defensive measures aimed at relieving Chinese pressure on the Japanese bases and supply lines. They said the Japanese lost the initiative two years ago by reaching the limit of their ability to hold and adequately police the ter- ritory gained.
On May 9, Lieut. Col. Kunio | have wiped out one third of a Akiyama, official spokemon for Japanese force of 10,000 and to the Japanese military forces in have captured a number of strate- China, said Jupan has no inten-gic points in counterattacks. tion of penetrating further into
the interior.
"The present offensives are mopping-up operations," he said, "The Chinese refuse to take the offensive therefore we must strike."
Like Stick In Sand Pile
100 PICTURES OF
BLITZ ON BRITAIN
CHANGE STIMMUNG
Time,
the
American news magazine, publishes the following letter in a recent issue, just arrived in England:-
many.
I got in an indirect way a letter from my home town in Ger- I give you the letter, which was written on December 28, 1940 in my own very textual translation:-----
"The nights were unquiet. Up to this moment we had 160 alarms here in
"In 1666 the Great Fire aviation
Dusseldorf. Real'se how that
of London laid waste the spolls your nerves. Foreign observers in Shanghai compared present Japanese cam-City. Nearly 275 years ning of this month were especially
paigns, as well as those of the past 2 years, with the act of
pushing a stick into a sand pile When the stick is withdrawn, the sand floods back into the hole.
"The two alarms at the begin- later art did its hideous. The industries situated damnedest to improve on on the right side of the railroad nature. Man has learned the Graf Adolf Strasse.
have suffered especially, likewise
It has become standard Chin- esc tactics, they said, for the defenders to slip away when the Japanesc struck. when the Japanese return to the'r bases, the Chinese move back to resume harassing attacks. The periodic mopping-up cam- paigns of the Japanese and their subsequent withdrawals have left the war picture essentially un- changed, these observers asserted, beyond the casualties which China can better afford than Japan.
in Japanese conquest China reached the high-water mark in 1838, these men say, when the It gives stark glimpses of the capture of Canton and Hankow battle which Britons failed to bring about China's sub-ing, scenes mission.
to start fires-with incen- diary bombs; but man has
learned Then, also
to stop them."
Cannot Break Stalemate
A few words like these, and more than a hundred photographs by fire and of Britain's ordeal high explosive go to make a little to Mr. Winston book dedicated
and called "Grim Churchill Glory."
This book → a tribute to the indomitable Spirit of the common
record people-is a
of Britain under fire.
Devastated
"Part of this street (one of the main streets in Dusseldorf) looks really devastated,
"In the Altstadt (old part of the city centre) too you find sad corners. A few thousand fire bombs have come down.
"The most terrible thing is the shooting. Often it lasts for three hours without any interruption. Soldiers who have participated in the French offensive say that it was not so bad at the front.
..:
"It is difficult to learn how much industry has suffered as this are fight is kept in great secret. of those heroes of "The frame of mind (Stimmung) the fire service and A.F.S., police, was naturally sky-high during the wardens and A.R.P. workers, bus summer. Everywhere one could drivers, nurses, factory workers, hear the stereotype phrase: In
and the ordinary Briton and his three weeks the war is finished.
***In the meantime that has To-day the Japanese are baffled wife,
"Grim to
Glory" costs 3s. 6d. changed and the frame of mind and at a loss to know how
Humphries and move next in the China affair, the (Lund
Scrib-is going downwards strongly. All foreign observers stated, adding ners). that the Japanese lack military strength necessary to break the stalemate.
The other-day, however, the Japanese command reported that the offensive along the Yellow River was nearing a successful conclusion as Japanese forces on the south bank seized six fording places, thus assertedly cutting off retreat of 200,000 Chinese troops seeking to escape from Shansi.
In Hupeh Province, the Japan- ́ese, advancing to the northwest along both banks of the Han
back another body of 200,000 Chinese.
people are more than nervous."
PHANTOM SHIP GIVES
NAZIS A HEADACHE
*
“THE PHANTOM sailed again." Those words River, reported they were driving will have been passed from mouth to mouth in Nazi-governed Norway following the lightning raid paigns in the interior, military by a Norwegian warship on part of the Norwegian observers agree that the Japanese coast.
:
Contrasting the futile cam-
obtained important results in their recent operations along the
For weeks a story has been on fire. It added:.. coast whereby they clamped down sweeping Norway, and trickling "As weather conditions did not on Chungking's supply lines.
On May 12 the Japanese tool through into Sweden that a phan- permit our bombers to intercept Walchow, north of Hong Kong, round Norway's coast, playing ring, it was able to get away.
tom destroyer has been dodging this raider, hunting for dead her- severing an important trade route which had been carrying a heavy jokes on Nazi garrisons and out- One can guess at the conster and carefully shielded traffic to posts, and generally upsetting the nation among the Nazi officers part of the the interior.:
complacency of Norway's, tem- garrisoned on this. porary Nazi masters,
Norwegian coast, f Now comes the news that the surprise Easter raid first reported via Stockholm was undertaken by a Norwegian warship under Nor- in agreement: wegian command with British naval authorities...
It took the Germans com- pletely by surprise, according to reporta-reaching - Stockholm from Oslo: WANAW
Long Battle Front Chinese dispatches to Hong Kong-reported intensified fight- Ing in South Shansi Province and said the main Chinese Japanese battle line extended more than 150 miles In an inverted". “V” shape from Tshingshuf to Slabslen and Menghslen, (7)
There were no: British Jonson, and oll depotejata, factory, and harbour works were destroyed.. Ak
KASO SNORSTEN
*** Observers - speculated" on the possibility that Japan was forcing the battle with crack Chinese armies in an ambitious, offensive designed eventually to carry the "She's Here Again" Invaders from Shunst to the hinG ASS SMARTPA) the AMAs part terland of Szechwan Across The first acts of the landing Southern Shans Province party were to cut telephone and ***** Formidable obstacica, to such telegraph lines, and false prison
a drive are the Yellow Rivercra the local leaders of Quisling's which the Japances would have party,ke,Shao Fen
Lately some of them have found neatly folded two-day- old copies of London newspapere alongside their breakfast Bauenges,
How did they get there? Norwegian setined to
But the whisper went round the
"It's our Coastline. Sleipner. She's here again
Ran Gauntlet Tales are being told in the Northern countries of how she has been running the Nazi gauntlet to reach her own coastline, mining the entrances to hidden bays, de- stroying lonely qutposts and cap- turing, German small craft.
There is no news to far about
to cross, and strongly entrench. The harbour which was raided which warship was engaged in od Chintao"forces believed In is in the same district as Svolvaer, this Easter raid, the gameAMAL non-Chinoso quartors to num., the scene of the previous BritishBut in Norway they'll be saying bar fully $1,000,000 mon: 30 and Norwegian raid on the Lofo-the was the phantom Sleipner, Meanwhile, In continuing batter Islanda, pa se pakened whose daring cheers up those tles in Honan and Rupeh Pro The Berlin radio admitted that Norwegians awaiting liberation vinces, the Chinese claimed they the local Ash plant had been net from the aggressors.