Evening star., 1942-06-04
StiIweN, Brereton
Reach Chungking 10
Confer With Chianq
Two Americans Arrive
By Plane for TuIks
With Chinese Leader
BY the Associated Press.

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CHUNGKING, June At.
Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell, Ameri-
can commander of Chinese
forces which fought the Japa-
nese in Burma, and Maj. Gen.
Lewis H. Brereton, commander
of United States Army Air
Forces in India, arrived by
plane today for conferences
with Generalissimo Chang Kai-
Shek.
Gen. Stilwell, the Chinese gener-
alissimo's chief of staff, led the 5th
and 9Th Chinese armies in their
defense of the east flank of the
Burma front.
Escaped Into India.
He escaped into India in a
hazardous overland journey when
his headquarters was cut off by the
japanese, and declared bluntly that
I'VE took hell of a beating"
Gen. Brereton is in charge of the
United States bomber forces which
pounded the Japanese during the
last weeks of their Burma campaign
and now are battering at the bases
from which the invaders menace
India.
Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault,
commander of the American Volun-
teer Group (the Flying Tigers i,
came to Chungking with Gen. Still
well. having boarded the plane last
night at Running.
Manchukuo Concentrations.
Meanwhile, a Chinese spokesman
said he had heard new reports of
Japanese concentrations in Man
chukuo, but he could not give their
size. The reports increased specu-
lation in Chinese circles over Jap
anese failure thus far to attempt
invasion of Australia or India.
There was increasing belief among
the Chinese that Soviet Siberia
might be the next big Japanese tar
get.
Chuhsien, rail line center of West
ern Chekiang Province and at pres
ent the immediae goal of the Jap
anese offensive in Chekiang, was
being pressed today from the North,
East and Southeast by 10000 Jap
anese troops constantly augmented
by reserve of perhaps an equal
number.
Benefited by incesSant relay
bombing which destroyed Chinese
defenses, the enemy column striking
from the north reached point only
3 miles from Chuhsien. The town
was under fire from heavy field guns.
About 1000 Japanese plainclothes-
men were intercepted and destroyed
south of Chuhsien, it was reported.
The Chekiang offensive, accord
ing 10 the japanese themselves, is
aimed at destruction of sites from
which Allied air attacks could be
launched against Japan.
But a military spokesman said
today: Even if the japanese occupy
some of our air bases there are
many cities where others could be
built"
Kinhwa Threatened.
Chinese units operating behind
the enemy's Chekiang lines were
said to be threatening Kinhwa, lost
provincial capital, on the rail line
east and somewhat north of Chuh-
sien. Chinese dispatches said the
japanese had burned Kinhwa sta
ton, indicating that their position
was becoming insecure"
The Chinese reported recapture of
number of strategic points east,
south and north of Kinhwa.
Other dispatches said the Japa-
nese used poison gas again on Tues
day southeast of Chuhsien and that
the Chinese had been engaged in
large-scale guerrilla campaign in
the southern part of Shansi Prov
ince since May 81.
The Chinese high command de-
clared that it's forces had inflicted
1000 casualties on the japanese at
tempting to take Chuhsien
The high command also acknowl-
edged that Kengtung, one of the
Shan state capitals in Burma, was
taken by the japanese on May 26.
Chinese military dispatches from
the Yunnan front bordering Burma
said the Japanese had suffered 1000
casualties in the past two weeks in
fighting centering at the outskirts of
Lungling and Tengyueh, Japanese
held towns just west OF the upper
Salween River.