INCOMING MESSAGE
 
FROM: CHUNGKING
TO: AGWAR FOR AMMISCA
 
NO.432, AMMISCA, APRIL 1ST
 
ATTENTION SEC WAR AND CHIEF STAFF
 
     1. ARRIVED CHUNGKING TWO AM TODAY.  OPERATIONS AROUND
TOUNGOO HAMPERED BY BREAKDOWNS IN RANSPORT, DELAYS IN SUPPLY,
ROTTEN COMMUNICATIONS, SABOTAGE BY NATIVES, AND POLITICS IN THE
ARMY.  THESE TROUBLES FADE INTO SIGNIFICANCE COMPARED TO THE
INCOMPETENCE, LETHARGY AND DISREGARD OR ORDERS AMOUNTING TO
DISOBEDIENCE ON PART OF DIVISION AND ARMY COMMANDERS. 
UNFORTUNATELY MY POWERS STOP FAR SHORT OF SHOOTING.  A FINE
OPPORTUNITY FOR GOOD SLAP AT THE JAPS HAS BEEN RUINED BY THE CRAVEN
OBSTRUCTION OF ABOVE MENTIONED COMMANDERS.  HAVE DONE MY BEST TO
HOLD THEM TO THEIR WORK AND HAD JUST ENOUGH LUCH TO MAKE ME
OPTIMISTIC ABOUT AT LEAST A LOCAL SUCCESS.  THEY ATTACK, BY PROMISING
WHICH TO THE BRITISH.  HAVE COME TO CHUNGKING TO HAVE SHOWDOWN
WITH HIGH COMMAND, uNDER EXISTING CONDITIONS CANNOT CONTINUE TO
COMMAND OF FIFTH AND SIXTH ARMIES WITHOUT BEING STOOGE FOR CHINESE,
WHO CAN BYPASS ME FOR ANYTHING THEY WANT TO DO AND THEN BLAME ME
FOR THE RESULT.
     2. SUPPLY OF RATIONS SATISFACTORY.  BRITISH DOING GOOD JOB ON
THIS. ALSO DID GOOD JOB IN RAIL TRANSPORTATION.  MEDICAL SERVICE
FUNCTIONING. FOR FIRST TIME IN THIS WAR WOUNDED GETTING TREATEMENT
SAME DAY THEY ARE HIT.  AMMUNITION VERY SCANTY.  GASOLINE AND TRUCK
TRANSPORT SERIOUS PROBLEMS, BUT NOT CRITICAL.  RETAIN ALL MY
CONFIDENCE IN CHINESE.