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...Threat of invasion by the Indo-Chinese...
...March the Japanese got valuable new bases when their forced "mediation" ended the war between: 1. Thailand and Indo-China...
Japanese militarists smacked their lips over the information that the French Indo-China Government was building a "commercial" seaplane base eight miles below Saigon-only 675 miles from Singapore. Russia added to the encouragement it has given Japan's hotheads in the Non-Aggression Pact by signing a new $14,000,000 barter agreement (last year's Russo-Japanese trade was less than $2,000,000). Also Puppet Ruler Wang Chingwei of Nanking left for Tokyo to be received in splendor by Emperor Hirohito. His visit was said to be connected with the attempted formation of a "peace...
China's only unblockaded supply route for U.S. goods is the Burma Road. Since the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China last January the Road has been within 350 miles of Japanese airfields. The Road is peculiarly vulnerable: it passes over two bridges slung precariously in gorges of the Mekong and Salween Rivers, and as it winds around the shoulders of huge hills it is as easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers...
...Burma Road is to keep Japanese planes away from it. Chinese anti-aircraft equipment and technique are inadequate. The Chinese fighter Air Force is practically nonexistent. Only solution, therefore: air patrols by U.S. planes flown by U.S. fighter pilots. The Japanese have stationed no more than 300 planes in Indo-China. Chinese experts consider that to keep these away from the Burma Road would require at most 200 pursuit planes in capable hands; at the present rate of Japanese attack, half that many...