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Burma is a gateway to China's roads. If the Japs drive on to Mandalay-they were only 75 miles away early this week-and successfully entrench themselves in all northern Burma, they will have a new front on China's borders. But Jap conquest of Burma is mainly dangerous to the Chinese because of the great new land routes abuilding from India into China. The Japs choked off the Burma Road when they won Rangoon; if they win access to the northern roads, they might all but choke China...
Hopeful Forfeit. The Japanese conquest of the Andamans made a great difference to the Japanese, to Britain and to India. The British at New Delhi had to admit that it was conquest by default. The small garrison, the few colonials, civil servants and guards at the Indian penal center in Port Blair had abandoned the Andamans to the Japs. Ready for plucking were the 204 big & little Andamans and the adjoining Nicobar Islands, which curve between Burma's central coast and the northern tip of Sumatra, locking a gateway to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean...
...newspaper Yomiuri, Navy spokesman Captain Hideo Hiraide wrote that, since the conquest of Java, Japan seemed to have taken the defensive while the Allies were on the offensive. He warned that Japan would probably be attacked from the air, that it was too soon for her newly captured raw materials to be fully exploited, that transportation was a difficult problem...
...Isle of Rhodes. Airplanes were undreamed-of when they buried their loot in the caverns on the island of Malta. But then as now, these islands were steppingstones toward the treasures of Egypt and the Holy land. Men's weapons have changed but the routes of conquest remain...
...takes precious ships to bring it in. The present plight of the East Coast, in fact, is thanks to U-boat activity in the Atlantic and Caribbean. The Japs, in occupying the Philippines, cut off about 900,000 tons a year for the U.S. Besides, the Jap's conquest of the Indies closed the last big source of sugar for Britain and probably for Russia (which lost two-thirds of her home supply with the Ukraine), and both these nations now become a charge on U.S. sugar supplies. Moreover, war takes explosives, which require alcohol, whose production is most...