"They have, in short, recognized his this great Greatness, It is chief mainstay hope for the It Is her good fortune that the Generaisima, inspire of te une ceasing strain of his terra burdens, continues to enjoy' lo usual good ealtn ana spirit, China, Th theory, the Chinese coast has been blockaded from the Gulf of Chihlt tu the north to the Bay of Tonkin tu the south. Yet in fact, 05 fast as the Japanese close up one dap, another appears, like a hole ins Jeaking hose pipe, "There fs no doubt that recent raids, such as the decent on Pakhoi, ard severe blows to the Chinese, causing interruption of routes and destruc~ lon of valuable supplies, Nor can the Burma road, especially since the unresisted attacks on the Mekong River bridges, wholly compensate for he'loss of the Indo-China route. Yet again supplies have a way of finding their way to the interior by all sorts of devious routes which the Japanese cannot hope to block, "To make the blockade total' under existing conditions, would require one soldier for every' half dozen yards of coast from the Manchurian border to Indo-China, ven this would be ineffective in places where the smuggling of Japanese goods fetches, high' profits.
Common War Alm Recogized "Japanese hopes that the Chungking would become little more than falsified, With the Burma road to the transit of certain classes of war materials, Chungking tething seems to daunt bin nor snake hig eliot in" China's destiny, fud it i not the Toast of his quale fies that he has spired. the whole country with his own faith, Int Quo Faint dormer ambastedo: to Bifain the. new Foreign Miniter) in Speech in London, id: "We have out [Chiang Kal-she' us you have your winston Churebit and the Americans ave their Franklin D." Roosevelt there leno doubt that the future of FRursan freedom depends, Inthe fest {nstance, on these three leaders. general Chiang Kai-shek's part, trough less spectacular In the eyes of the world, isin some ways more Portant, for he has no obvious sue= fessor and. there: is no-one' else thet moment to whom he. 450,009 000 Jot his countrymen can look for their future," ven renegades know that the Generallsimo will never give up the struggle unt the Japanese wit draw from' China, Every. Chinese {eels of the Japanese what MIN Chur chill Nas said of our own chiot enemy Sit was for ater to soy" when the war would begin, but Wt ts not for him or hig sucstssors to say' when wall end?
"The Japanese are discovering, aiseaaing the greatest fallacy of all bout the Chinese, that one nation fay start wary but that it takes two oF more tomake "a. peace."
Reuter,
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