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CHINA'S DESTINY What will be the immedi- ate outcome of the intensive political activity in Nanking, where every top-ranking Na- tionalist leader in China is assembled, still stands anybody's guess. None can doubt that for President Chiang Kai-shek and his re- gime the roads of destiny are clearly marked, or thai the pressure to abandon a losing battle in the civil war and to And a formula for peace with the Communists is gaining weight from the highest quarters. The Chinese people are so discontented with the present Government that any alternative--even Com- munist-appears worth the risk. The Chinese form one of the most tolerant races of the earth. They are patient beyond most people's endur-
ance.
Famine, the Japanese Invasion. Tong weary years of privation, slaughter, bomb- ing and oppression-all these things they have suffered so long as long as there remain- ed some hope for the future. After Japan's defeat. how- ever, the National Govern- ment's wilful venture into a new civil
ther misery upon them.
The great mass of the Chin- ese care nothing for the finer
On the left the German armour
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War
In Europe
the
development of artificial ports we had a rugged and effec- tive system of supply and rein- forcement. We were confident, consequently, that in the, build-
We were up race
sure to win. · Beyond this, a possible counter- minve was the launching of a secondary amphibious mud possi- bly airborne effort, against the
continuous throughout the re-ining was interspersed with count-Brittany Peninsula, mainder of the front, with only less interviews and conterences.
with this there was ocal gains anywhere, and almost Along
to the Cauti sector Pourse a constant need to The sketch shows our lines o formations still in England and June 12 and 20.
destined for early entry Into
stalemate
Montgomery's factical handling | battle.
01
vialt
Early planning placed a very great importance on the ports in that area, and we believed that, If the enemy shouki denude his defences there in an effort to present an impregnable line in front of our Normandy landing, we could accomplish o surprise move into The Brittany
threaten which would
region
a large,
Ироп ак
well-
of the British nad Chandions on One Incident, pleasing to me and defensive strength continued the Eastward think and his co-personally and indicative of Gen- to defeat our intentions, but the ordination of these operations with cral Marshall's constant thought-
had decided to take spot we of Cherbourg fell on June 26, those of the Americans to the fulness for his subordinates, was just twenty days after the landing Westward involved the kind of the arrival of my aon in the him in flank and rear. In this most useful for supply and main- General Collins had contucted work in which he excellel, theatre about the middle of June, corection we had already learn- tenance purposes in Brittany was against it a relentlisa offensive) well understood the personal He graduated from West Point ed
ed that the Germans never de- Quiberon Bay, D-las undi. and as a result of the operation equation of the British soldier.m
with General liberately evacuated a port with-aholtered, but undeveloped har-- Justified his nickname, "Light and the morale of his forers re- Marshall's approval, was given put leaving behind them a desa-bour on the Southern flank of Uhe
The ning Joe.“
Boal assault mained high, in spite of frustra-authority
to spend his short lations unit destruction that ren- peninsula's base. was materially assisted by heavy tions and losses that could easily graduation leave with me in the derel raplet repair extremely di- and accurate naval gunfire. have shaken troops under a coni-
battle aren, subject only to the met: therefore the particulari To Be Continued In the matter of fuck we had mander in whom they did not
the enjoyed à rough medium between place their Implicit truši.
CHIPBOURG
VALOGNES
MONTEURa
STEMERE ÉGLISE
BARNEVILLE ST, SAVŠUA
Bradley's minimum and maximum
points of political ideology.. unsuited to
OPERATIONS AGAINST
CHERBOURG .
JUNE 1944
FORT-EN-85SSIN
ISIONLY
CARENTAN
TRÉVIÈRES
BALLEROY
proviso that he return to United States $21 me to enter upon his advanced training by July 1. tie travelled with m everywhere, and his sole disap pointment was my refusal to J- terfere in the normal routine for a young graduate and assign him to one of the infantry divisions them in Europe,
Both the British and American forces were building up steadily. in strength. In spite of the h terruptions and destruction due to the great storm the nine- tenth. the delays imposed were
CANTONESE BY RADIO
anly temporary an Interfered Vocabulary:-
tie with the execution of Bral 50. (tak) duk
pink.
The stently Arrival of fresh 51. (kaai) gaaye1 troops mule 1 possible to keep up the offensive, but under un-
52. (t'iu),lecoo favourable conditions of terrain and weather.
Op the East our Useful phrase:
purpose was now to contain the
BY S.K LEE
Losson 9
maximum amount of the Gormon (5) "Guung hay fan!" tsoy" forces, on the West to make suf-
ficient progress so that the final Phrases and sentences: and co-ordinated drive to break
out of the restricted beachhead (A) 1. could be delivered.
Dzoh duk'.
2.
Mdzoh duk
3a.
Dzoh duk' m dzoh
duk'?
ს.
„Dzohm „dzoh duk1?
C.
Dzoh duk' mah??
d. Duk',m duk'?
2. Yut' teeoo gaaye).
General Bradley displayed Late June was a difficult period war heaped fur-estimates of the influence of this qualities of steadfastness, drive, for all of us. More than one of Imponderable factor. Our good professional skili, and a capacity our high-ranking visitors begon luck was largely represented in for humun understanding which to express the fear that we were the degree of surprise that we became so obvious to his subor- stalemated and that those who achieved by landing on Utahdinates and his superiors allke had prophesied a gloomy fate for which the Germons con- that the American teamwork Overlord were being proved cor- but they wholeheartedly
major am- forged on the many battlefields rect. A grave risk that always blame the present govern effective action of the two air-never thereafter seriously shaken. mass is ending itself scaled phibious operations, and by the of the Normandy beachhead was accompanies an amphibious un- ment for the chaos that pre-borne divisions, the 02nd and the He was then
dertaking against a continental valls. Corruption they know 101st, which had landed almost First Army.
commanding the land Major General El-off in n beachhead. Adequate and make allowances for,
in the centre of the peninsula, wood E. Quesada, a young and elbow room is a prerequisite to but they find it impossible to
air commander, was
in the build-up of troops and up- forgive ineptitude quite so that struck us on
une 19. v
charge of complete. Certainly in areas stoppuil for a period of four day's ments immediately supporting bile battle.
nearly all landing activity the him. The mutual confidence they where civil war
When possibilities of supply and operations beaches and therefore interfere developed, the systems and me- reinforcement, as well as terrain. have brought the problem to seriously with every operation; it thods they worked out for battle- favour the defence, there exists hearths and homes, there is was so fierce in character as to field co-ordination, and the spirit the chance that in spite of sue- no will to resist Communism, render offensive fighting extremu- | they infused among all their sub-cessful landing the battlefeld The Red regime is a dictal dimeuli.
Our bad luck was in the hurricane) active the tactical air group- plies necessary to a decisive. mo-
ממ
torship, but it has survived During that time sea cominuni-
if
cations between the United King-
it
at
VALOGNES
When the storm struck, one
BEACHHEAD EXPANSION
JUNE 12-26.1944
LIFE OF JUNE 12
(B) 1. Hui" gauye'.
3. Been1 tecoo gaaye1?
Teeoo tecoo gaye2.'
4. Nee tecoo gaaye'.
5.
1
Conversation:
A. Bay deal tseen2,ngaw, duk',m duk1 neh1?
ย
B. Nay yecco tscen2 „dzah
meeyeh ah1?.......
A. Ngaw seung” hui gaaye1
maaye,yeh.
B.
Nay yecool gay1 daw1 neh3? A. Ngaw yecoo3ngshup
STE MÈRE ÉGLISE,
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CARENTAN)
TREVIÈRES
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B.
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Nay maaye
meei
yeh ah3? A. Ngaw maaye leung gawi
2
Can. To get, obtain.
A street.
Classifier for streets, rouda,
rivers and things long, and flexible.
"Congratulation (on you:)
prosperity".
It can be done. it will do.
It can't be done. it won't
do. Can it be done? Will It do?,
To go out.
One street.
Which street?
This street.
Every street.
Will you give (It to) me?
money?
What do you want money
for?
I want to go out shopping.
How much do you want?
I want Afty dollars.
What are
buy?
you
going to
I am going to buy two
clocks.
jung'.
B. Maaye yut! gaw3 jung
What
the cost of n
clock.
yecool gay" daw' tseen2 neh1?
A. Yecooyee shup sayt munt. I couls twenty-four dol-
Jars.
B. Neel shue hai ng shup Here is fifty dollars.
the first tests of efficiency in the way it has beaten the dun at the Continent were
completely interrupted nudi opposition after starling was almost impossible to fund an under great disadvantages, | airplane on-the- small landing Its land reform programines, strips we had constructed in the
The mulberry ruthless sometimes in their bridgehead.
Omaha Beach in the American application, has ended rural
sector suffered damage beyond feudalism over large areas. repair. Greut numbers of ships American intervention, well-and small vessels were grounded meaning though it was, made or hurled onto the beach, matters much worse. The Conditions would have been Chinese now blame the Unit-deal for a German counterattack effectiveness except for the prior ed States for prolongation of of the Air Force' campaign of the civil war contending that isolation. Here, as always, was it would have been settled emphasised the decisive ini
influence long ago. by a compromise of air power in the ground battle. arrangement American Cin the day of the storm's end- ing I flew from one end of our arms and dollars had not beach line to the other and count tempted the National Goved more than 300 wrecked vessels ernment leaders into the be- above smull-bont size, some lief that with this help they hadly damaged they could not be could eliminate their political
salvaged. opponents. The Communists American division, the 83rd was ordinates, were in pleasing con- may thus easily become a drain- have now repeated their in- still lying in its ships just off the trast to other cases that I hading sore in the side of the 'ut- TRANS-ASIATIC_Airlines (šiam) LTD. timations in Shanghai that beach. Bulk untoading was out encountered early in the war. tacker rather than the opening
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The bc-against the defender's main lives and interests, and they entire storm the division under- fectly into the picture. have in fact hinted in Yenan went an extremely uncomfortable complishments in Europe of the forces. This had been the Allied
and trying experience. I visited three United
In the States services experience at Gallipoli broadcasts that they will in the men of that division the day operating under unified command arst World War, an experience vite foreign help in the re- they anally got ashore and found strongly influenced my deter that was partially repeated, for building of China. Many a number of them still seasick mined advocacy of a similar type some monthy in the early part of optimistic foreign merchants and temporarily exhausted. of organisation in postwar Wash- 1944, in the Anzio operation.
There was no sight in the war Ingion. take this at its face value. that so impressed me with the
Such a possiblity had, of course, Others think that the Com-industrial might of
During the early stages of the been thoroughly examined and America Bs battle my own life was one of planned against, long before D- munists are themselves sur- the wreckage on the
landing almost incessant travel. A visit day, Our greatest asset in do- prised at the magnitude of beaches. To any other nation the to Montgomery, Bradley, or to feating it lay in our air and sea their successes,
and appre-
disaster would have bees almost troops on the front would be im- power. clating the nature of the task decisive; but so great was Ame- mediately followed by a period confident of disrupting enemy
In the Portsmouth supply and rica's productive capacity that of activity confronting them will accept the great storm occasioned little headquarters, where the work of impeding troop movements, and aid from any quarter-until more than a ripple in the deve- co-ordinating and adjusting ship of beating down prepared de they are firmly in the saddle.lopment of our build-up.
ments and major phases of plan-'rences. Through sea power and Certainly the Communist With the capture of Cherbourg armies are excellently led. the work of port rehabilitation was started immediately, The The strategy has been highly Germans had accomplished major DO YOU successful-witness the drive demolitions and had planted in on Nanking before North the harbour and its approaches, KNOW China was consolidated, profusion and variety of mines. drive which has contributed Some of the new types of mines coukt be removed only by deep- more than any other factors divers, who had to descend to the swift breakdown of to the bottom to disarm the morale in Nanking. Prob. mines. The work of the mine ably a considerable time will sweepers and the deep-sea divers elapse before any change in In Cherbourg Harbour was ong of the dramatic and, courageous regime can be organised.incidents of the war. Outlying provinces may seizę,
During the_twenty days requir» upon the chance for located by the U. 3. VII Corps to cap- autonomy, however tempor- ture, Cherbourg, the fighting was ary. Nevertheless the broad pattern is becoming clearer
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and few believe that any de-Chiang Kai-shek, is expected cision reached in Nanking. to address the country on which does not allow for New Year's Day in accord- pence overtures will do more ance with past tradition. than postpone the completion | This time he should have of the design. President something vital to say,
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