Evening star., 1943-11-05
New Drive Against Japs Mapped
AtChungking> >PresidentRevea|s;
Allies Smash Deeper Into Italy
U. S., Britain and
China Agree on
Offensive Plans
BY J. A. FOX.

PRESIDENT Roosevelt announced
today that American, British ane
Chinese military leaders, meetins
In Chungking, have mapped {
campaign in the Far East thar
means bad news for the Japa.
neSe.
The Chief Executive told his pres
conference that the Chungking con.
tereeS included 1t. Gen. Joseph w
StllWel, commanding general O.
American forces in India, Burma
and China; Maj Gen. Claire L
Chennault, commander of the Unit
ed States l4th Air Force: 1t. Gen
Brehon B. Somervel, Army Service
Forces commander; Lord Louis
Mountbatten. commander of the Al
he'd command in Southeastern Asia
and Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
the Chinese leader, and his aides,
While the President was unwilling
to go into details, he said the meet
Ing dealt with strategy and other
matters. He agreed that the pres
ence there of Gen. Somervell meant
that the question Of supplies figured
in the deliberations. Gen. Somervell
has returned to the United States
and was at the White House this
morning. He told newspapermen
the conference lasted about five DAYS
Other Meetings Abroad.
Mr.. Roosevelt also told reporters
that the Moscow postwar peace
agreement undoubtedly will lead to
other United Nations meetings
abroad but that the question of his
own prospective conference with
Marshal Stain and Prime Minister
Churchill still was undecided. He
added he was still very anxious to
meet Stain because it was always
a good thing to know the other
fellow.
The other meetings he referred to,
he said, would be of the two COM
missions set up at the Moscow con-
ference and that of the Mediterra-
mean commission and a second COM
mission set up in London.
The President emphasized the
Ehungking meeting had been ex-
tremely successful and that the par
Elephants were in complete agree
ment on all points.
The conference is viewed here as
folloW-up to the Roosevelt
Churchill meeting in Quebec when it
was announced that definite plans
had been made for intensifying the
war against the Japanese.
Pleased With Advances.
In this connection, incidentally,
the President spoke with satisfaction
of the advances that the American
forces now are making in the Pacific,
stresslng that with American troops
ashore at Bougainville they are that
much nearer to the all-important
japanese base at Rabaul.
The President spoke of that action
as a continuation of the successful
whiting aWay-the attrition process
that is being used against the jap
aneSe and while, he said, the
Bougainvllle occupation does involve
a continuation of the island-hopping
strategy, it doesn't mean that we are
committed to that policy.
The operation at Bougainville, he
added, is aimed at knocking out
Rabaul.
The President was asked if the
Moscow conference meant any
change in the status of Gen George
G. Marshall. Army Chief of Staff
who has been reported likely to be-
come commander in chief of Anglo
American forces. but he said it did
not.
He was asked why Austria was
selected for a special treatment in
the Moscow meeting which agreed
that Austria is to be liberated from
German domination. The President
said he would have to await the re-
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