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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...
Thailand (formerly Siam) 200,000 16,000,000 Military occupation...
...trouble with this assumption, at least until vastly greater weight can be shifted from Europe and until a vastly more efficient arterial system is built up in India, is that it would leave intact that very intricate and dangerously efficient system of supply below Formosa, taking in Singapore, Siam, Indo-China and lower Burma. The Japanese would be able to move forces on the Allied right flank far faster than the Allies could move their own main forces...
Frank Schiel was poised and confident. He had been decorated (Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross) for more than 200 breathtaking reconnaissance flights over Burma, Siam, Indo-China and Occupied China. He had participated in every major campaign in China, had shot down six Jap planes; he had stayed on to help knowing Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault train the China Air Task Force...
...River. Troop trains had been seen moving north-toward the Yunnan border. Chungking declared that Japan, with the cooperation of Vichyfrench Governor General Rear Admiral Jean Decoux, was conscripting an army of 150,000 native Indo- Chinese. Estimates of Japanese air forces in Burma, Indo-China and Siam: between 700 and 800 planes...