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JUNE 11,867 Chinese Casual THE THIRTY-FIRST INSTALMENT..

tles evacuated from Mitch,

JUNE 11-Wheeler back-Sup- reme Allied Commander (Mount- batten] going to United Kingdom and deputy to, take over. Louis whats to know what about It. Well, what about 17

the.

The wear und tear o!! nerves continues. Are We at- tempting too much?

Can they koki, us? Is there a surpris

The Stilwell Papers

looked good.

JUNE 20-Rain. Of at len

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randly: Counterattack? Will our people stick it out? Casualties too heavy? I can tell that I'v had nearly mough of thin, 11 Jooks easy for an outsider to

JULY 21-SAC (Supremo Al-| cammand, but it's rough as hell not so bad as painted, the mont

August 1, [CEYLON] - Saw Ked

Commander-Mountbatten] Louls · [Mountbatten] at 10:45. on a wörrler.

leaving August 2. He is working | Eleven to 1:30 a cockeyeil confer- Beat Joe at checkers.

the abolish COMMANDED in at Worazup field und India (theatre], [ UNDATED

China-Burma-ence. They came to the conclu- 1 Reporters, & General Office 32312 Prinicipal load is standing disap-quarters).

AUGUST sion that they had better get a LETTER TO MRS. STILWELL ve somehow. They her MRS. STILWELL The enclosed (tour Unex)

pointment and upsetting of plans.

JUNE 21-Chineve and Bri-Sull whanging away at Mitch just fumbling Everything conspires against him

trying to

from the 12th Engineer -dumb execution, weather, tish] attack on Mognung tomor- but bidications are now that we what the Prime Minister [Chur-Regiment is to my mind a gem good and tight chil!] wants A dead giveaway of prose. "At the communique breakdowns, misunderstandings,"| row. Subscription Rates:

In general, situation [ht have the nonse deliberate obstruction, jealousies, Mogaung seems protty goort, and that very few will get away. on the function of South East Asic, tating you have been promotes Three. p.m. a very to be one of the very few four- LK.$18.00, le. Must be prepared to necept Japs chopped up and starving. We should finish the job in reas Command

tho US Ariny. nity per cent results in twice the easy killings in large numbers, sonable time and then Ole Pappy sad G-2 munting. Golly to star generals of

is going to take riðlay off. I have Sdpremo (Mountbatten].

Here the whole of this regiment H.K.$30.00 tine enteulated. One small block with no cusunities on our side.

hart a hard two months what with

renders you a warm congratu delays the entire move-not just

lations and docs believe there is AUGUST 2-British Broadcast JUNE 22-Remnants of [Jap1 one thing and another and you Tendency of the unit affected. Chinese commanders to change 38th Division cooped up South know what I mean when I anying Company broadcast promotion nothing competent for expressing undercover manueuvring to full general). Wires from your constammate achievement in The end for that the plan if easter for them. Con- West of Kamning.

continues in all camps and I hove Sultan and MacArthur, just the this theatre which was taken for stant check. Constant prodding, them.

Aranted Impossible except Constan! smoothing. As Foch Radio from Merrill, Louis wants to FALL OF MUKDEN

to watch my step and keep my same as before, no thrill.

Saw

(Back up, Homer, and. Pownall throat protected. The Japa con-

[Lieutenant iliod." sal, "To accomplish even a little me relleved as deputy

room. More over, The fall of Mukden and the the battlefield, much effort is Allied commander and hos op- thue to be the least of my trou-General) and told him to run the give

Went through the crap Rector-Fll dance with Helen,) merced."

All be can hope is to pronchel Marshall. Substitute in bles. When I see what gets into show.

P.m. to The and bent it,

the Temple surrender of the Nationalist keep going.

There is undisguised apprehen- Good the papers it nauseates me. A brilliant success be Werlemeyer or Sultan.

And lon on the part of Louis's staff armies In the "Corridor" is accident, because accidents God-to be ousted in favour of Chinese troops have been grand of the Tooth-no_touth.

would

"Shopping" d. here on account of his impending and they will do what I be

say nothing to see. forms one of the most im-

have let them do their are certain to occur; it is only a Wedemeyer-that portant turning points

hoppy one, that its into a mis-disgrace. Just a feeling of relief now. Their tails are up and they Silver, and ebony elephants, saw return, 111

tear into the Japs with full con- the museum. Now I've done all work and cancelled most of their

bellynche meetings. take, in time or place or dispost-If it's done. China's civil war.

Now they By this on by the enemy, that brings a

Adence that they can beat the the sights. Read, had a nap.

AUGUST 3-Omer ot 7:00, realise they must again face the JUNE 25-Boatrier has malaria. hell out of them. It is what you dramatic triumph, the Com-esult quickly. A dumb mistake

of wind and paper. might call very sailsfying to any raditos

anci stuff. munists

Read, had a daily blast

the idea. have accomplished by the enemy may put a unit in

JUNE 26-Chased Boatner to the least. Also that our score nap. 6:45 to Swiss hotel for cock-and they don't relish the first part of their pro-

au unexpected place and wreck a perfect plan, War is a gamble showers. He cried and protestert, of the Japs counted is now over tail party. Merrill was introduc. We almost had it on a common- gramme, the total occupation All we can to is try and keep a

29,000. (Confidential.) Rain, raining me to Kandy society, mob of sense basis.

AUGUST 23–Louls [Mountbat- of Manchuria,

rain, mul, mud, mud,

300, typhus, about

Good news, from In view of small percentage on our side.

ten], here tomorow. Message JUNE 27-Good nowx from mainela, dysentery, exhaustion, Myitkyina, big gains.

Chiang ¡the rapid debacle of the Inst

from George Marshall: We have it.

rotting feet, body sores. If we LETTER TO MRS. STILWELL

K'ai-shek

has through Kung JUNE 12-114th Regiment] x Mognung, fow weeks, indicating the

are badly off, what about the What though the complete collapse

AGREED to do it [5m, appoint an of the moving-they are already beyourl

further Jups with de medical help and blow soft o'er Ceylonic brazes JULY 2-Rain. No

isle

American commander in chief] morale of the Nationalist to grab and criticise.

Podawnyung. We are too reatly

Message from their supplies shut off? This has Where every prospect pleases for Chinere Armies. Netson and Kamaing news from Mitch. armies, the second stage, the being pounded.

George Marshall:

about bren a knockdown and drag-out and only

Correct only min

Kandy is 2.000 Copy

Pat [Hurley] am leaving today. going to China and fixing things aftale. The physical conditions 1 in every detail. occupation of North China,

of F.D.R. [message] Climate like Hawaii. Chiang came in later. speak of are worse with the Bri- feet up.

Sunbath, up!"

The views LETTER TO MRS, STILWELL tish and Japs. Not nearly sp but Plenty of fruit. "He's

The rain is pouring down, day with the Americans, and the Chi-beautiful. In contrast with North S

AUGUST 24-Got started at after day, and night after night nese are in excellent shape after Burma, this is a paradise. Why

MAY 8:30 for Colombo [to mwatt We have om

talking about Ceylon? Mountbatten's arrival). D there is getting deeper, seven months of it. the mud and and we still go on fighting these taken good care of them, but Mountbatten has left temporarily,

is not likely to be long delay- JUNE 13-Just bellynches from jed. The return of the Gen-Boatner fat Myitkyina). pushing-but-"ele, etc. eralissimo to Nanking rumours that coupled with Peiping is to be declared an open city, whatever that may mean. offers a clear sugges- tion that little. resistance

Following on these events

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JUNE 14-Gloomy report from Boatner, Everybody running stars. A tough and persistent even at that it is remarkable and as hell to the throne, Linient 11:00. Ordered crabs and went to the field. Estimated Time of away and hell to pay generally.c

the Kamaling-Mo- guilty about Mitch (Myitk-Willie, the Country Boy, had to Arrival now 1:30. Went und Japs about to take the offe:33- gaung area we have broken their vina] but we'll get it in due come down and take over. This Mount Lavinia beach, and to sive Hard rain early am.

hacks and had numerous cleanup time.

is a laugh. A goddam American White House for lunch, Back to Over in Myitkyina, they With my experienen, I should in the driver's seat, etc., etc. I'm Ratmalana airport). Estimated is likely to be encountered LETTER TO MRS. STILWELL porties.

It's great do well in the rackets in peace-going to read and rest and get a Time of Arrival now 3:30. Christ by the Communist armies if Ben graduated from High School, ale dug in deep, etc.

hand in this time. pleasure to have

lot of sleep. Read Life In

Putly went and got ice, picked up the their leaders decide to push | always visualised being around it's a hell of a drain no The damn anakes are begin-Kalfe Factory. It's screwball bat crabs and went to zoo. Good on to Peiping and Tientsin. some of the time he was in school but

and here we Bi a goddam nervnus energy. I'll be glad of aning to appear. One got into the It's lovely, He comes right out selection of monkeys one with In any conflict, the fighting war for 24 years and we haven't rest myself. Mountbatten has office and one tried to get into with a lot of things I have al-a big red ass. One gibbon, High- spirit of Fu Tso-yi would be started yet. He'll be an old mar-been up again. He had the nerve my tent. Now I look around, beways wanted to see in print. Also ly coloured macaws. Back to the On to make a speech at our head-fore I put my bare feet on the read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. field. Finally came at 3:30. Fool- quite inadequate to compen-dist man before I get home,

AUGUST 4-Radio about rd around and then I shoved. Ho Sate for his inferiority in

the other hand, if some of the quarters but he doesn't fool our floor and shake my shoes before

Gis much. They are getting a I put them on.

Myitkyina--over at last. Thank was not at case with me. Adinir- វ

Ged.

Net a worry in the world als Frater and Layton numbers and equipment and people who are trying to

there. knife in me have some luck, 1 look at the British Empah with 13 the probability is that were

Dumb day, JULY 22-Bịg news from Ger- its morning. For five minutes Back home at 6:30. ils pants down and the aspect may be home any day. he seriously threatened by

but now I am all through with You can imagine many. Rlots and what unt, op-anyway. Our Chinese

cooks so pretty. soldier

how popular I well-armed-with Nationalist continue to turn in good perform- Limeys. I have been thinking of Russkies are pouring on to Wurference.

the position to Nazis has broken out. AUGUST 1-Omce, press con- Colombo,

P.m. rend. George LETTER TO MRS. STILWELL. situation in Europe looks arms-Communist forces, he ances. The other day one

Mounthation as a sophomore hut

good. them had been out foraging and

I

tipa would find discretion

began to believe the

and vinegar), O.K/d 11. on the way in, heard a noise in I have demoted him to freshman, and they must be in East Marshall radio on Hurley foll The

to crackup can come Indost any better part of valour

AUGUST 6-7:30 by car and

the bushes which turned out to

This island is a time. Then with one war on our war Newara Eliya, of withdraw into Charhar and be a Jap major. The cook pulled black. It would be a pleasure to Suiyuan.

out the pin of his grenadeinid 80 to Washington and scream.

Tea and rubber all the allow Mr. Roosevelt to give me [of Japs] very bad. Mornie low, there.

(The presidential down in the grass and stepped told you so," but I think they get from Myitkyina) says contillions park all the way: 48 miles up hands, maybe Mr. Churchill will

was my thesis in wounded kept in line, shart way, one estate after the other some help. and lay down in the bushes the point. in the military field, the airont went off, making mother May last year, but I was all alone rations one quarter bowl of rice Everything trims and clean, water backbone seems to be surenkag falls everywhere, deep and distant with Hurley and Nelson coming is now full of rumour-born minor

the air boys were so sure dully. About 400 left. Shinto gad out of the they could run the Jupa out of

views, The air took me back to over.) Help on the shoveling! of wishful thinking?-hinting major.. Then he picked up the China with planes that I was put

went down to Colombo to at the possibility of the re- souvenirs and came on in.

JULY 20-(3:00 to 4:00 p.in.) 1908 In Yellowstone, dean ond Five stray

the garbage pall. Japs charged the

They Flety with Randall all over Mitch bracing. Big cypress trees--welcome Mountbatten on his re- tirement of Chiang Kai-shek

have had

που their way und command post, 113th regimental

now and up and down river, Watch lake. What a place to bum in- turn, I went to the zoo arst to crowd of Limeys though. We look at the monkeys just to get and the formation in Nan-

The pings Infantry.

the bears are spilled, but, whati ed are bombs, which were not walked around and breathed it in, in the mood. He was not at case king of a Government of the soldiers] sho

(Chinese can anyone do about it? It's just very effective. them

all except

Looks from air of those sad might-have-na

ven if we should finish it off soon. feft at 1:00 after lunch along the with me which is not surprising, Leftist groups which would one, a great big Jap whose amebeens. The people who are prin- Took off with Joe for Sinduzup! road, and came back the long because his trip had to do with operation his deputy's wild on with the munition ran out. He kept com-

way, Easter lilies grow

throat. Maybe the fourth, star Communists. Not that thereing. with a surprised lonk on his sipally to blame will duck all cri-) at 5:46. We Worked 11 1 nearly Ceylon exceeds the advertising.

ticism and responsibility. If this fell asleep.

Cleaned-up- papers | mug"and"the" pings began to shoot

AUGUST ---8,——LETTER TO throw a monkey wrench into the..... is very powerful logic in this is feet to make him dance, crisis were just suffelent to get and packed to go to Ceylon]. MRS. STILWELL Went up to machinery. At one time or'an-

Stilwell's three-week stay approach. In view of their Then the colonel stopped them rld of the G-mo without entirely

Newara Eliya on Sunday. Limey other all the Best People have repented successes and strong and told them to grab him. About wrecking the ship, it would be Ceylon was a pleasant interlude resort, 7,000 feet up. This is attempted to get the can attach- military position, the willing fifty pings sailed into him like Worth It. But that's too much to in a tear of struggle.

Fome war. Eating papaya and ed, but have somehow slipped up Stilwell was enormously amus-nvocades, sleeping, reading and on It-up to now anyway. Wa ness of the Communists to ants on a caterpillar and there hope.

ne who

ed, by the pomp and ceremontting. I have abolished the Bnally got Mitch Mytkyina]. make peace

now must be was a hell of a ght to see

JULY Ho

off to luf the great headquarters get the Jap tied up. would

"conferences" and have the chief It was a bitch of a fight and with Ho

of staff handle the rest. Every- the raw troops we had, full of written off as highly doubt was very dilapidated when thay George Marshall on China crisis Kandy. His ful. The least terms accent- unpiled and produced him, all Nothing new at Myitkyina. Rain. was to cancel the sequence

endless meetings that occupied thing is lovely and the Limeys anxiety, but we are sitting pretty now. What 4 bitter dose that enough

They had able today would require the Doughing like hell, Queerlygainst STILWELL-We have preity well of headquarters.

JULY 5, LETTER TO MRS. the attention of the higher brass Just can't make it out. harbour no rancour CIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES

AUGUST 13-MacArthur in a was for the Limeys. Thereafter he concession to them of a pre- the Japs. We've been making a

to

rela napping, sweat over Chennault trying to said it was impossible so often and so vohomently that they just Queen's Building,

Tel. 26851 (3 Hnes).dominant position in any killing lately.

Got the Japs cut cleaned up the Japs around Mo- proceeded

it was

true. AUGUST 15-Last night, BBC couldn't believe new national coalition gov-up into several separate hunks gaung. It has been a satisfactory Feeding, driving about the island. bomb Mantia.

Myitkyina had · fallen by the party. We still have our troubles time he had settle

"Headlines of

the Satisfaction, The Chinese gen- ernment, and virtually com- and they are paying for it at the elsewhere and you can readily into his chair kencind the news," To wit: "A British patrol erally are all popped up ever

comfortably broadcast.. plete control over national ate of ten to one.

a couple of places we want. believe that nil is not love and campaign in North to a affairs.

Burma had reving down the Tiddim Road has the fight their soldiers have put Burma ad frontier of We've had some torrentin kisses among the various ill-as- campaign in north In the meantime, North of clownpours and some sunny in sorted fragments i have to work halted for the monsoon sea hot and right after the Buman" TAINED OFFENSIVE ET STS- the Yangtse, the military terludes. But we can expect only

However, I can only de In Ceylon he received, news of have I olated the German armles NESE HISTORY AGAINST A

hell with it.. his promotion to the rank of the Baltic States." Colossal, FIRST-CLASS ENEMY. THEY initiative lies entirely inain, mud, leeches, mosquitoes my best. And

four-star general of the United | Watson, colossal!

(To Be Continued) Communist hands and events and more, etc. It is better than

JULY &-Radio from FDR. Ir States Army, a dignity he shared Chiang K'al-shek and from at the time only with Generals will be watched closely for being in Delhi or Chungking or

in Kandy with Louis.

George Marshall to me. They Marshall, MacArthur. Eisenhower signs of the strategy they

ritic- plan to adopt. There are two JUNE 15-Rain all night, still have been, pouring it into him and Amold. The Chinese

about me. F.D.R. told Chianation disturbed him greatly--but that views: either they will oc-raining all morning. Struggled K'al-shek to give me full author Roosevelt had demanded

with papers. Terrible letter from cupy Peiping and Tientsin, Boatner, bad news from Myit-ity to run the show, promotion Chiang make Stilwell comman- consolidate their hold on kying.

to full general. U.S. troops are shaky, North China and establish a Hard to believe. Either our

JULY 11-Ben's birthday17. new government there, or fleers are all rotten, or elso Sore throat-papers all day. by-pass Peiping and push Boatner is getting hysterical. I'll

JULY 13-Yesterday smol South from Shantung with have to go down.

Article in The Saturday Even- gains [at Myitkyina] but every the intention of seizing Nan- ing Post. The one man of genius where." (king and Shanghal and the in Asia is Chennault.

"Walking Yangtse Valley for the more Joe and the Platoon War in Bur- JULY 10-Japs at Mitch, shov-, Three groups ambitious project of over-ma," "World-War I foot-soldier." Ing off on rafis.

0 dumb yesterday, [we] picked up o tionalist Government alto- give

Chennault 500 planes and gether. What reserve forces watch him "go to town." And at Chiang, Kai-shek has main- the end of the

the article, this fool tained under his direct con- says we are getting ready for the DO YOU trol to resist auch an opera-sia, agains tthe Japanese ARMY great battle on the mainland of tion is a matter for con- (Fight with planes and be up to fecture. It is reasonable to date.) Such Jackass stuff geta assume on. the

There is a de- YOUR basis of under my skin. Chiare's military, record that liberate plan in the Fourteenth the Nanking area has not Air Force to belittle everything

I do and to invent catchy phrases HONG been left defenceless, indeed to make me look like an old- that an operation against | fashioned- stooge. Nanking and Shanghai would meet with the heaviest 22nd in Kamuing arid having a JUNE. 16-Good news at last. sistance that the Communists hell of a ume.. Before ppon. That have yet encountered. How should have been a filling. over that may be, it looks varv much as though Chiang Kal-shek's' prophecy that the

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der in chief of the Chinese mies, and Patrick Hurley, the wealthy oilman from Oklahoma, tras coming to China to conduci) the delicate' negotiations. Some- one quipped that Vinegar Joc mix any better than oil and vine- and Ollman Hurley, might not |

gar-but Sillwell at the time cas delighted with the news,

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