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Show VIEWS ON CHINA ' ARE CONFLICTING i The situation in China, where progress in their efforts to estab- Japanese armies are maKmg some lish an overland route from Korea to Singapore as - an alternative j supply line for troops in Malaya, S Indo-China and other areas, is not N clear to many Americans and it is , rather difficult to appraise condi- f tions in a country so far away. it Liu Lianv-mo, former morale officer with General Chiang Kai- I shek's forces, says that blame for the current military defeat in Chi- na should be placed up onthe po- if litical situation within the country rather than upon lack of Ameri- can supplies. He insists that disun- , ity exists in China, attributing it to reactionary elements, and adds that "there are quite a few con- centration camps in China." This appraisal of the situation is somewhat at variance with that of Dr. Wei Taoming, the Chinese j Ambassador to the United States, who says " that the Chinese are "fighting against fire power with moral power" and that if the Chir i nese were not suffering from long I years of blockade, the Japanese I would have already met disaster 1 in their overland drive. 5 The Abassador admits that the situation is serious but not that it is desperate and asserts that millions mil-lions of troops are eager to do j their full part and that when the blockade is lifted and they are ad- ( equately supplied, the Chinese will "join forces with our allies and fight back to Tokyo." |