The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-01-01
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Definite Showdown Likely
0n0ffensiye Against Japan .
Chinese Feel That Success of Madame Chang
Kai-shek's Mission to United States Will
Determine Future Of Their Country.
WNU Service, 1S43 III Street, NV.
WASHINGTON, D. G.
BY BAUKHAGE 3
NesUs Analyst and Commentator.

WNU Service, ls43 III Street, NV,
Washington, d. G.
In hospital in an American city
one of the great women of the world
is lying under treatment for serious
but not critical trouble. The doc
tors have said assuringly that the
trouble is not dangerous, that
Madame Chang Kai-shek will soon
be well.
Several million Chinese are wait
ing anxiously for her recovery.
Although the matter has not been
formally discussed as yet, 1t can
safely be predicted that when
Madame Chang Kai-shek RECEIVERS
and she takes the house she has
rented in Washington, her mission
will not be secret long. According
to hints dropped in reliable quar-
tiers, this mission is to obtain a def
mite showdown on immediate aid
to China in the form Of an about
Allied offensive against Japan.
The offensive must be made up Of
| a shuddering and shattering air at
tack on the heart Of the Nipponese
| empire-on Tokyo, on Yokohama, on
harbors and cities, on factories and
tempted hills. At the same time a
huge Chinese army, well equipped
with supplies from America and
India, must be ready to advance for
invasion.
It is explained that Japan is pre-
pairing for knockout blow against
China. It's objective is not to con-
troll the whole of Chinese territory,
but to strike northward from Thai
land and Burma; to take Chungking
and isolate the Chinese armies
which are not destroyed; or perma-
nently to cut these armies off from
all aid from the Allies by blocking
off the approach from the Indian bor-
der, along the frontiers of Burma
and Thailand and the eastern coast,
which they already hold.
The Japanese would also encour-
age and aid the formation of large
communist state in China in order
to further add to the confusion Of
the political situation which the in
vasion would serve to bring about.
This the Chinese believe Japan could
do unless aid from the Allies comes
| first. Military observers here agree
that it would not be impossible for
Japan to accomplish this.
As nearly as am able to gauge
opinion here, the course that the
United Nations strategy will prob
ably follow is this: A real offensive
against Japan by the spring at least;
the streng probability of another
front to be opened somewhere else
before then. The United States
has a million men in its armed
forces outside the borders Of the
United States now. It will have
more before long.
Russia's Role
In War and Peace
Recently ! heard an American
who had spent a long time in Russia
and not long since returned to Amer
lea give a vest-pocket version Of
Russia's role in the war and her
possible role in the postwar settle
ments. It may be a picture colored
over-brightly with the tints Of wish
full thought, but I present it for what
1t is worth.
The Russians will not quit, until
the last dog (their version Of the
invader) is hung. After the peace
they will cooperate in establishing
the kind Of a peace which the United
States would like to see established.
Several reasons are offered as to
why many experts utterly mis-
judged the power of the Red armies.
One explanation is that the often
,sive strength Of the Germans was
over-estimated.
The next explanation is that the
Russian, additionally, will fight an
invader with fatalistic fury, provid-
ed he is armed.
Although both Of these statements
are accepted as sound, another ex-
PLANTATION is offered. It has to do
with the reason why the Russian
army was able to put up its re-
markable resistance and develop a
powerful striking power-how the
TRADITIONAL fury was stimulated.
This is my informant's interpreted
ton, part Of which Is not new, but
which offers the basis Of his predic-
ton as to the future conduct Of
Russia.
He says that under the present
regime, especially since the various
longtime plans under Stain have
been inaugurated, the younger Rus
sian generation, deprived Of the
church, has sought an outlet for
human beings natural desire for