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Show Japs Guess This One Wrong The Japs apparently figured that the rainy season from mid-May until un-til late August would letard the Allied advance in Burma. The Japs made a "gross miscalculation,'' the Chunking Radio said, inasmuch as the Allied capture of Myitkyina by Allied forces occurred at the height of the monsoon season, when the Nipponese, asuming the Allies couldn't "take" the monsoons mon-soons may have diverted the "main part" of their forces to the eastern sector of China. The large bomber that landed and crashed just east of the Swa-zey Swa-zey Mountains was loaded on a convoy of trucks and moved away for repairs on Monday. Speaking by radio from Honolulu, Honolu-lu, Hawaii, after his return from Saipan and Guam. Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information, In-formation, cautioned the American people that while American generals gener-als and admirals "have out-thought out-thought the Japs as our rank and file have outfought them afloat and ashore and in the air. . . our fightitiB men need stuff to fight with, stuff we must go on producing produ-cing at home in ample quantity-no quantity-no matter what may happen elsewhere, else-where, no matter how we might like to get back to the familiar ways of peace. . . our fighting men out here have written a record of which every American ought to be proud. Give them tools and see that the tools get to them over thousands of miles of land and sea ant they'll finish the job." |