Word: malayas
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...wanted an explanation, but for at least a week they got none, and as they waited their anger mounted by the hour. Veteran correspondents began to experience an unprecedented coolness from the Chinese. In lieu of an explanation all they could go on was results, and the results-in Malaya, in the Philippines, in the Indies-continued bad, however gallant the local actions...
...next prize that the Jap wants is the rich Netherlands East Indies. Last week while he was still fighting in Luzon and Malaya he struck at the Indies, for their supplies of oil, rubber, metals and all the other storied riches by whose possession he could tilt the economy...
...that point nearly all of Malaya's tin and rubber was gone; now only the naval base was left and its site. Singapore, was already within such close reach of the Japanese Air Force that the base could no longer be called importantly naval...
...more easily said than done, even with a big force. Thailand and Burma have long been uppity neighbors. Their railroad and highway systems do not mesh, and the border country is mountainous, wild and miasmic in the low places. Yet Germany in Greece and Japan in Malaya have shown that an army with the will and equipment can traverse any kind of country, fighting as it goes. Up-to-snuff military men like General Hutton must have profited from their examples...
SINGAPORE -- Japanese bombers were decisively beaten today in their first major daylight raid on Singapore and officials predicted that the Allies would have air superiority in Malasia within three days, but they said that meanwhile Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States and second city of Malaya, had fallen to the invaders...