China's Liberators

Two years ago this month, Premier Luang Pitul Songgram sideslipped tiny Thailand into war with Great Britain and the U.S. The excuse: the R.A.F. had bombed Bangkok. The reason: Japan looked like a sure winner.

Last week, for the first time, Major General Claire L. Chennault's China-based Liberators thundered over the pagodaed Siamese capital. They bombed railroad yards, an airdrome, started fires visible 60 miles away. Bleated Luang Pitul: the attack on "a small nation like Thailand . . . was just as easy as going to the golf course. It is impossible for such an enemy to attain victory. In addition, America will be punished severely by Providence."

Tokyo radio said that Liberators on another raid had headed for Japan; "impenetrable defenses" turned them back. On the way home, according to the Japs, the Americans bombed the island of Formosa "for propaganda purposes." Actual target: an aluminum plant at Takao.

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