Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-06-08 | Page 4 | China's Victory Halts Threat to 'Rice Bowl'

r Chinas China's Victory i Halls Halts Threat I I To Rice Bowl June 8 UP- UP Chin Chinas China's s 's great rice bowl is no longer In danger as the result of Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek's greatest victory over the Japanese In the counteroffensive on the upper upper up up- per Yangtze river an army spokesman spokes spokes- man said Tuesday I Various government spokesmen I declared that Japan has failed in I what they said were her two t main objectives One to sever communications communications communications com com- I between Hunan and Szechwan provinces and two to i break the Chinese rice bowl The Japanese were admitted to I have plundered or destroyed some I granaries but the spokesman said the Invaders accounted for only a afew afew afew few tons and that damage was limited If we succeed in recapturing Hwajung miles mUes southeast of the major Japanese Yangtze base I of the whole position will wilI willbe willbe be restored to normal the army I spokesman said Hwajung is north of lake and was the pivot for the Japanese left wing in the Yangtze river ri Another government spokesman said China needed a bigger air force and heavy armaments in including including in- in eluding tanks and artillery in order to recapture more important points than those already taken in the Yangtze battle in central China on the distant approaches to The army spokesman said the Japanese drive started at the wrong time I I If they had come at harvest time they might have destroyed our crops he said Chang Ping Chun counselor of the executive Yuan and another spokesman at the press conference conference conference confer confer- ence said that fears abroad over Chinas China's economic plight were a ua little bit exaggerated but he emphasized emphasized emphasized em em- that we have no need to hide our great need of outside help not only in arms but for all kinds of supplies A Japanese Japanese- broadcast from radio Tokyo heard by the Associated Associated Asso Asso- elated Press said 17 enemy planes had been shot down and 22 destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de aground in the Yangtze campaign up to June 6 Japanese losses were set at four