OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES
                    WASHINGTON, D.C.
     
                                                  19 June 1944
 
MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
                            
      The following report comes to us through confidential channels as the view of T. V. 
 
Soong.
 
                             The current Japanese advances in China are the real thing and not mere 
 
training expeditions. The Chinese generals opposing the Japanese do not plan to defend either 
 
Changsha or Changteh. This means that the Japanese will have a virtually unimpeded advance 
 
along the railroad running from Hankow to Canton and will be able to complete their internal line 
 
of communications all the Navy from Korea to South China before the end of summer. It also 
 
means that the Chinese coastal provinces will be cut off from Chungking.
 
                             This view of the military situation is endorsed by General Dewiart, Churchill's 
 
representative, and General Grimsdale, the British military attache, and General Wedemeyer.  
 
General Dewiart has cabled Prime Minister