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Show Conflicting Views About China The situation in China, where Japanese armies are making some progress in their efforts to establish an overland route from Korea to Singapore as an alter native supply line for troops in Malaya, Indo-China and other areas, is not clear to many A-mericarjs A-mericarjs and it is rather difficult diffi-cult to appraise conditions in a country so far away. Liu Lianv-mo, former morale officer with General Chiang Kai-shek's Kai-shek's forces, says that blame for I the current military defeat in China should be placed upon the political situation within the country rather than upon lack of American supplies. He insists that disunity exists in China, attributing at-tributing it to reactionary elements, ele-ments, and adds that "there are quite a few concentration camps in China." . This appraisal of the situation 's somewhat at variance with that of Dr. Wei Taoming, the Chinese Ambassador to the U-nited U-nited States, who says that the Chinese are "fighting against fire power with moral power" and that ,if the Chinese were not suffering from long years of blockade, the Japanese would have already met disaster in their overland drive. The Ambassador admits that the situation is serious but not that it is desperate and asserts that millions of troops are eager to do their full part and that when the blockade is lifted and they are adequately supplied, the Chinese will "join forces with our allies and fight back to Tokyo." |