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While Washington pondered, the Japanese continued to consolidate their gains in French Indo-China, moving southward toward Singapore (see p. 50). They worked to reach an agreement with Russia that would enable them to close the China Incident. The little yellow men were out to see whether the U. S. would scare. A firm U. S.-British stand on aid to China via the Burma Road, plus naval cooperation in the Far East, might scare them instead. If neither side would scare, there was a better than even chance...
Instead of the 6,000 Japanese troops which, by agreement with unoccupied France, were to be permitted to man three Indo-Chinese air bases, Chinese sources reported last week that 38,000 Japanese troops with 60 tanks had landed at Haiphong. Instead of withdrawing, the 20,000 Japanese who "by mistake" had invaded the colony near Dong Dang and Langson the week before, were advancing on Hanoi, the capital. One of the first big grabs by the invading Japanese was 1,000 U. S.-made motor trucks at Haiphong. Other characteristic acts included humiliating white Europeans in front of Orientals...
First indication of the value to Japan of Vichy's surrender came when 45 Japanese planes, taking off from their new bases in French Indo-China, bombed Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province, vital aviation and manufacturing centre, junction of both the Burma Road and Indo-China Railway. Japan was also in position to bomb supplies brought by motor truck over 600 tortuous miles of the Burma Road, if & when Britain reopens...
...Order. That Japan had come to Indo-China to stay was plain. Shipping between Formosa and Haiphong stepped up, hotels teemed as more than 1,000 Japanese and Formosans set up businesses...
With the Army and traveling salesmen arrived propagandists intent on stirring up native hatred of whites. Coming from China, where brutality was their code of conduct, Japanese soldiers assumed in Indo-China the role of liberators, fraternized with the natives and invited them to inspect and play with the guns of the hitherto forbidden French coast defense. Thousands of agents preached the New Order and distributed pamphlets explaining it. Lavishing tips on ricksha coolies and beggars, Japanese officers protested loudly their affection for the people...