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...Stilwell had driven almost 200 miles from Ledo, had knocked out about 17,700 Japanese casualties. His Chinese, Americans, British, Burmese and Indians had stamped out the 18th Japanese Division, whose fame at home was built on the rape of Nanking, the capture of Shanghai and Singapore, victories in Malaya and Burma. His troops had also badly mauled three other Jap divisions...
...took him along with his "army of liberation." Through the heavy folds of British censorship in New Delhi came word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many as 30,000 Indians from Malaya and from Jap prison camps. More important than the size of his army was one explosive fact: an armed, anti-British Indian stands today on Indian soil and calls upon his fellows to rebel against...
...Problem. For the first time, hints of friction in Southeast Asia had been spoken out loud. Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten differs with Stilwell, looks far into the future, wants to retake Sumatra, Malaya (with Singapore), Thailand, Indo-China, punch through a sea route to China. Stilwell's Chinese troops and his air force are necessary for that program...
Said Eden, reporting on prison camps in Siam, Burma, Malaya, Java, Borneo, Indo-China and the Philippines: "There are many thousands of prisoners from the British Commonwealth, including India, who are being compelled by the Japanese military to live under tropical jungle conditions without adequate shelter, clothing, food or medical attention . . . building railways and making roads . . . their health is rapidly deteriorating . . . there have been some thousands of deaths. The number of deaths reported by the Japanese to us is just over 100. . . . The refusal of the Japanese Government to permit neutral inspection of camps in the southern area is difficult...
...infantry-lean, navy-poor Southeast Asia Command last week recorded its first major kill at sea: a British submarine had destroyed a 5,100-ton Japanese cruiser almost within sight of Jap-held Sumatra and Malaya. It was the most successful invasion of enemy waters by a British submarine since H.M.S. Truant torpedoed two Japanese ships on its historic, 80,000-mile cruise through the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific...