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Wednesday,

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July 9, 1941.

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DEBUNKING THE

BLITZKRIEG

AFTER sixteen days of pitiless fighting and enormous losses in men and materials by both sides, the Russo-German war picture is still confused. This is primarily due to the exceptionally big front on which the conflict-or to be more correct, conflicts are being fought. What normally would comprise a battlefront is, in this war, a sector, which means

that when communiques speak

International Importance

of the

Sino-Japanese War

By ROBERT P. MARTIN United Press Staff Correspondent

past 30 years. Under his adminls- China and Japan enter the

tration

has the highway

shown Afth year of their undeclared

teady progress. hostilities with the struggle as-

Authoritative reports showed that auming 'greater importance be- cause of its increasingly closer the control of north China and also Chungking, but most of the observers last November the dally allpments will provide them a springboard, believe this is wishful thinking as over the Burma raulo averaged 129 relationship to Anglo-American plus protected lines of communica- long as Britain is still standing and tons. December 142 tons, January efforts to halt the Axis powers. tions, for a dash across the Yellow both Britain and the United States 109 tons, February 240 tons, March

The Sino-Japanese war is" River into northern Honum province continue to supply Chungking with 202 tons and April 300 tons. to-day no nearer solution than and westward to Slan, capital of credits and war materials. in 1938 when Japanese forces Shensi province, if the Japanese in- occupied the Wuhan cities. tend to pursue their advance, China during the last year re- The battle was admitted to have ceived more moral, financial and been the greatest siner the carly material aid from Great Britain days of the war and the worst de- and the United States than in feat the Chinese had suffered since the previous three years. The the fall of Hankow in 1936. two western Powers sought to bolster Chinese morale and pro- vide implements of war neces-

resistance.

Indo-China

Kuomintang V. Communists

The road is functioning the best In its history with all bridges Intact, according to the latest re- ports.

With constant improvement and China late in 1940 and carly in mereasing shipments, the Chinese 1941 internally went through one of might possibly obtain Aumcient the most desperate periods of the war material to enable them toʻstage a- due to a conflict between Generalls- morale-building offensive, but the sino Chiang Kai-shek and the Com- Japanese claim they would welcome munists which resulted ini actual

sary for Chungking to continue The majer Japanese military

fighting between the Central troops any such move by the Chinese.

The extension of United States uid China's resistance, it is be- operation during the year was the and the New Fourth Route Army

to China under the lease-and-lend lieved, will prevent Japan from bloodless conquest of French Indo- and threatened to spilt wide open

China which cut off one of Chung the five-year-old "united front."

bill, the dispatch to Chungking by throwing any appreciable

President Roosevelt of Lauchlin strength to her Axis partners, king's major supply routes and ren-

Relations between Chungking and Currie, on economie expert, to either through n southward dered useless thousands of tons of

other Imports the Communists at the present time ascertain China's needs and bulld up expansion programme or out- war materials and right participation in a world which were stored up awaiting; trans- appear to be temporarily patched the Chinese morale, and the recent war in case the United States portation by railway to Kunming up but the fundamental difference visit of a United States ale mission to China, and a further group of between the two still exists. should become embroiled from Ianol.

transport and finance expert have against Italy and Germany.

The occupation of Indo-China also Chinng also was faced with acute also been significant developments. Success of the Anglo-Ameri- made available to Japan the French Anancial problems, and with the

The air mission was followed by can programme to aid China colony's annual production of 30,000 monetary assistance of the United will be judged historically in the tons of rubber which represents more States and Britain checked the acute a few experienced American pilots Japan normally uses. The inflationary trend in Chinese finances, and limited ground personnel. Ap- outcome of the European strug- than

inmo Japanese also gle-whether Japan is

gained tremendous with the accompanying evils of sky- Parently the United States airmen bilised to the extent that she is quantities of tin and other vital raw rocketing living coals, hoarding, de- will not be used in actual combat unable to participate effectively materials with the exception of oil. pleted government revenues

export other hardships which were suffered have charge of building up with the Axis.

Japan also gained a new market during the year with Indo- by the Chinese people. China and succccted in bringing

Two Alternatives

and

but will train the Chinese to #C new American machines and

will

and

maintaining the Chinese air force.

Significant Moves

The United States had two Thailand within the orbit of the alternatives-either to help Japanese "co-prosperity sphere." China and thus indirectly hiri- The occupation of Indo-China also States monetary assistance, gives United States Anancial aid, Indicate der Japanese military, power, gave the Japanese air bases or to embargo completely trade operations against Kunming and the mic footing during the coming United States has placed on bolster-

Burma Road

the

Chungking has now instituted a. centralised food control and taxa- tion programme which, with United

All of these steps, plus increasing

tremendous for China promise of a stronger econo- the

importance

ing China to continue her wor against the Japanese in Immobilise possible.

bases for year. with Japan as a means of under- mining Japan's war-making possible future use against Malaya

power.

The latter course had the danger that it would force Japan southward

oir and

and the Netherlands East Indies.

Politically, Japan's major accom-

Chinese Optimism

The Chinese optimistically pro-

order

to

the latter us far

The effectiveness of the programme.

to the Netherlands East Indies and plishment of the year was the recog Malaya to obtain oil and other raw nition of Wang Ching-wel's Nanking diet that Chungking will be able so far is shown in Japan's refusal materials and open

markets for regime—a recognition which has not to take the offensive in the nutumn to take the collapse of the East exports.

This Is Such R move might yet produced any results because of of 1941 or the spring of 1942 when Indies economic negotiations as the

based partially on Japanese have forced the United States into Japan's unwillingness to give Wang! the dow of America's war supplies signal for a southward push war with Japan, defeating America's any power either militarily, poilu- aim to concentrate on Europe.

cally or economically, plus the fact gives them necessary tanks, artillery, tlon that further extension of the war The United States chose the first that Wang has not yet been able to and planes.

other prominent Chinese

The only supply route which the apparent realisation that the United continues and alternative

to supply induce which she needs in an effort in his "prace imports to keep the Japanese military forces movement,"

bogged down in the China conflict while not committing any overt get

Japan with lesser quantities of the leaders from Chungking to aid him

and reconstruction Chinese have now is

Some

abservers state

realisa-

in the Far East might stretch the lines in Clilna dangerously and also on the

the

Burma States ready to back up its roule, operated under the direction stand in the Pacific with force if of Dr John Bari Baker who has necessary and the realisation that the present International situation that

not entirely favourable with the United States and China for the further military adventures.

for

д

or placing the extra pressure which strengthened Nanking regime might been a rail and highway expert in is

be able to negotiate peace

of the Ostrov - Polotsk - Lepel-would bring the Pacific crisis to a

head.

mangk.

A second reason why it is hard to gain an accurate iden of how the war is progressing. from the point of view of strategical and territorial gains and losses, is that the only re- ports issued are the official

mopping-up operations against Chin- ese guerillas in occupied areas, cam- paign against the Chinese-regulars,

tremendous acrial

onslaught against, Chungking, extension of the blockade order in an attempt coastal

2

Chungtiao Fighting

With the Chinese Army

on

Bobruisk-Novograd-Volynsk and Japan in the past year confined Mogulley-Podolsk sectors, they her China war activities to continual are referring to most of White Russia and the southern part of the province of Leningrad,

All day long. we had ridden By AGNES SMEDLEY powerful. This is true of your own country also. It is the worst thing which absorbs an area of about to cut off Generalissimo Chiang Kai-along the Chinese defences in 80,000 square miles. In addi-shek's supply lines, and attempts to

returned the millions of your friends who delest tion there are fighting sectors disrupt the Burma Road operations. North Hupeh Provinces. When stood at attention. "Salute!" shouted in all existence. I am one of the in Bessarabia, the Ukraine and The last, judging by the decreased the shadows of the hills grew the commander, 1

operations in the past few months,

they. "This is 4 foreign friend, such men as you with the millions- the northern province of Mur- have been almost abandoned a long we halted at a mud hut in salute, but with better reason than and oppose such people. This binds ja narrow valley which one of She works for our wounded. She of whom I am one. I would apolo possible.

gise to you for my countrymen who the armies was using as its first will spent to us."

tell weapons of death to your dressing station to care for the

What does one say to men going enemies-but I do not regard them The most crushing victory he wounded.

out to die? The faces and eyes were as my people." Japanese inflicted on the Chinese.

"Tell us what our friends are do occurred in May when 100,000 There was but one door to the solemn, serious-faces from another world than mine. But were they? Japanese, including tw

two divisions

the earthen Then I thought of my own people, of ing against this." from Manchuria, surrounded 200,000 hut. Inside,

I told them. I told them the Chinese in the Chungtino mountains floor, lay a number of wounded the people of England, of all the common people of the world who in southern Shans! province and in-

the men in a row, and in the fading have watched and sympathised with names and the work of many organ- 50,000 fiicted

on casualties

China. And I began to tell the sol- isations working for China, and of communiques from Moscow and Chinese at n cost reported to have light their dark forms were like alers of those people who hope for those that do work of humanity. In

been less than 10,000 Japanese. Berlin, which of necessity are

Military observers claim the cam-/a part of the mud walls and the her victory, who give transmail this I mentioned the name al Presi

or salaries to send medical Wares or was 70 to 80 per cent, success-earth beneath them. On a rude extremely generalised, and to palgn

Mayor of London, who had issued ful since it gave the Japanese a table near the door stood half supplies to them. I hesiinted about dent Roosevelt and of the Lord

the medicine, for It was not at the some extent coloured.

lete hold of the Chungtino a dozen half-filled bottles, a pair front where it was

calls MOGL needed

for money for medical aid, complete But it has been possible to mountains and also the Yellow river of black native scissors, a few These men had seen more of Suddenly a soldier jumped to his feet

crossings leading to Shensi and Ho ascertain this: the Nazis are

nan provinces and wiped out some rolled bandages, and some small ing 'planes and ammunition from my and shouted:

From a country than they had seen medical "Long live Llod Mayo of London! attempting what they call u

squares of gauze. of the best Chinese divisions. four-pronged offensive aiming The Chinese admitted the Chung-dusty rafter hung a big wad of supplies. But, I thought, when men Long ilve Llosevell!"

local cotton. An go out to die you say things to en-

courage them. What encourages men The entire company shouted after at Leningrad and Moscow. The tlao mountains were evacuated but unwashed

later said the defeat was not as bad army dresser sometimes reached most at such a moment as this? So him. blitzkrieg against Leningrad as it sounded.

they "Long live the 'The slogan If the Japanese consolidate their up, took a bit of the cotton, I told them of that which I thought comes from two principal points

were not alone in hold it will give them, for the first dipped it in a small bowl of would make them feel that

their fighting. Leader had forgotten the names of time in the war, complete control of liquid, and washed the wound of we have not done enough," I con- the organisations I had mentioned, so -Murmansk in the far north to which Leningrad is connected Shansi province which is the key to one of the men lying

floor. Then he took a bit of cluded, "but we have tried to do he hesitated and then nodd

I shall tell what have the people in the world who are our something. by a main railway, and from Estonia, Latvin and the north-steam-roller movement such as gauze and a bandage and bound seen here, how you look and fight, friends" ern border of White Russia. was the case in Poland, France the wound. He did not wash and of the spirit that moves you to On off the blood that had caked on continue fighting until your country

The commander smiled proudly, There are also two chief lines and the Low Countries. of

The men saluted and sat down turned to me, and said: "We must attack in the offensive their own admission the in-the man's neck and face.

again and remained silent for some now move up," against Moscow; one from the vaders have been held back at

time. Then a slow murmur came

"Salute!" he shouted, and all the contro of White Russia (the many vital points-especially

from them. They were talking to

prose and saluted. They Minsk area) and the other vital to them, for unless these

Marching feet beyond the mud hut through Bessarabia and the can be secured, their armies in

disturbed me, and I turned to see a cach other. "What are they say men

turned and said to them: "She wants were ready. They began to march. Ukraine.

other areas, although gaining of grey figures passing. with ing?" I asked the commander, and he shouldered their packs and rifles and Another point also appears to local successes, may find them-rifles and packs. I went slowly out, to know what you are saying." Soon With a heart heavy with misery

Soon they halted, removed their a soldier grose, stood stiffly with his march

ravine, On the crest of arise the emerge; that the Nazi blitzkrieg, selves completely cut off. viewed in the light of the The indications are that the packs, sat down, and rested their hands at his sides, and said, looks. marched with them up into the

rifles between their knees, Two of directly at me: "We would like, to commander achievements scored by previous Germans, in line with the rest went away and brought back a know why your country sells planes farther!" I took his hand, shook my similar German offensives, has of the world, underestimated big wooden bucket of boiled water, and ammunition to Japan to kill us head, and together we walked In been B comparativo fallare the war material, fighting and soon all had drunk. This was against Russia. Successes have ability and staff leadership of a company of troops moving up to been attained, for instance the the Soviots. Hitler's latest ad- the battlefeld, and this was their Inst

I stepped to the side and the men hes overruning of Russia's incor- venturo

already proved stop for rent.

I went towards them, and their ed men. They face, the sternal veri- marched past me, each one turning They were like porated States of Estonia, terribly costly, and if Russian Latvia and Lithuania, the ad- moralo can be maintained and commander arose quickly and salut- ties. They are men of the earth, noi hla, face to me.

of fine theories. To them I ansiver shadows as they passed, and I reach- vance through White Russia, her military and political chiefs ed. He came up and we talked. and tho thrusts made in some continue to uso sound judg- "We are going up," he said. "Willed can only tell you that, there ed out and touched them. Then they for you, and against you, and that figures blended with the darkness. parts of Bessarabia and the ment, the Nazi regime may yet you say something? We have half to people in every country who are were all gone, and I stood until their those against you sell war materjala Somewhere in the hills a shell burst machine guns hammered. Ukraino. But ovidence is lack-dig its own graveyard in the an hour here."

com- to your elemies. They make money and mand, and all the soldiers arose and out of death. They are few but Misery overwhelmed me,

the on

ing to show that after 16 days fields and plains of the western The commander "uttered a tho Nazla have achieved a Soviet Union.

Is tree,"

with."

So, I thought, they are hard-head-

I

Baid, "Do not come

silence. The ravine grew dark, and again he halted and said: "Go back; Good-bye."