Tokyo, Apr. 15.
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek's widely heralded "April offensive," for which he is asserted to have prepared all fronts for vigorous guerilla warfare. Bas been changed into a defensive action by the guerilla crushing operations of the Japanese forces. a Japanese expert on military affairs declared here today.
"It seems that at the beginning of of this year Soviet military advisers at Chungking advised Gen. (Chiang Kai-shek to start offensive tactics along every, front," the military expert said. "Though the reasons for such advice have not become known, it may have been thought that Japanese forces have concentrat-
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