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...command and started a face-saving drive on Changsha. Their faces were slapped instead, in what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing attacks on Chungking. But the biggest Japanese successes of 1939-40 were accomplished by the Germans in Poland, Norway...
...Foreign Office soon handed gentle M. Arsene-Henry demands that French authorities: 1) give the Japanese a detailed inventory of gasoline, trucks, railway stocks in French Indo-China; 2) allow Japanese customs officers periodically to examine these stocks; 3) let Japanese troops supervise transportation across the border into China...
This was a lot to swallow, but on instructions from defeated Bordeaux, Ambassador Arsene-Henry acceded. Of course, the Japanese were not satisfied. The Navy concentrated several units, including an aircraft carrier, off Hainan Island, opposite the French Indo-Chinese port of Haiphong. The Army was reported moving troops down from the Yangtze area, with 100,000 already billeted on Hainan...
...land blockade tightened around Britain's nearby Hong Kong. The French Indo-Chinese defense, 50,000 mostly native troops almost entirely unsupported by airplanes, would probably not last long without help from British Singapore...
...Japanese militarists, occupation of French Indo-China was a delightful prospect. It would shorten both the long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...