Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-08-22
Chinese Foreign Chief
To Join in Conference
OF Leaders at Quebec
Stress on Pacific War
PIons Seen in Soone's
Journey to Canada
BY the Associated Press.

! Ds the ASSOClat6Q FTeSS.
QUEBEC, Aug. 21.-T. v. Soong
Chinese Foreign Minister, is ex-
| pected to join the Quebec war
conference within the next "a
hours for discussions with Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Prime Min
lister Churchill on China's role in
forthcoming offensive operations
against Japan,
Word Of Mr.. Soong's expected ar
rival was the days second develop
ment focusing attention on plans
for powerful new smashes at the
enemy in the Pacific. The first was
the simultaneous disclosure here
and In Washington and Ottawa that
a combined American Canadian
force had occupied Kiska Island, the
enemy's last bastion in the North
Central Pacific, without resistance
Mr. Roosevelt and Prime Minister
w. L. Mackenzie King of Canada
in a joint statement acclaimed this
bloodless reconquest of the Aleu-
tan island as victory which frees
the last vestige of North American
territory of japanese forces"
Donovan Arrives.
Stephen Early, presidential secre-
tary, said that Mr.. Soong was ex-
pected, although he indicated ar
rangements for his joining the con-
ference had not been finally COM
pleted. Mr. Early also said that
Secretary of War Stimson, who re-
Gently returned from a tour of the
North African theater, would get in
tomorrow and that Maj. Gen. Will
liam ]. Donovan, chief of the Of
flee of Strategic Services, already is
here.
Mr.. Early was asked whether
Secretary of the Navy Knox also
would come in from Washington
but said he had had no word to
that effect.
After issuance of the Kiska
statement today Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Churchill canvassed the wal
shipping situation at q luncheon
conference with Lord feathers
British Minister of War Transport
and Lewis Douglas, deputy chair
man of the United States War
Shipping Board. The conference
continued into the afternoon.
Hull and King Motor.
Subsequently the President went
for drive with Malcolm MacDon-
aid, British High Commissioner to
Canada, and his sister, Miss Sheila
Macdonald Meanwhile Brendan
Bracken, British Minister of In
formation, met with Prime Min
lister King, and later Secretary OF
State Hull and the Prime Min
lister motored through the city.
Announcement that the long.
dread battle for the rugged ane
once-strongly held Aleutians bastior
had been won without firing sho
occasioned the greatest surprise IL
this Allied war capital. For tn,
time being it dominated the scene
heretofore characterized by planning
on a global scale for battles yet II
come.
1t was evident that Mr. Roosevelt
and Mr.. King, while they natural,
had known the news for some tim,
prior to its disclosure, were impressed
mainly with the lack of resistance
Most of their brief statements dis
cussed 1t and sought to explain it.
In short time Kiska was beiny
spoken of among the military ant
naval observers here as a symbol O
new period in Japanese militar,
policy-a period in which the EN-
battled Nipponese no longer cal
afford to squander human lives IL
; face-saving defense OF doomed ter
ritory. It was evaluated too, as
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