Word: formosae
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...stocks enough for about 15 months of all-out war. Normally consuming 28 million barrels a year, she can command from Manchukuo. Sakhalin, Formosa, and her own wells and synthetic productions only some 7 ½ million barrels...
...Americans in the Philippines needn't worry about head-hunters, but the Japanese stationed on Formosa are in potential danger," he claims...
...Japanese have a different situation on their hands in Formosa. Apparently they mistreated the mountain people there who did not accept Nippon rule. So the Japanese had to content themselves with enclosing their mountain province in an electrically charged barbed wire fence to at least prevent hostile tribes from raiding the civilized lowlands...
...which can be made in time into a naval base) the Japanese now can more easily cut the British sea route from Singapore to Hong Kong. Moreover, they have a central position from which to intercept fleet movements between Manila and Singapore. With Japanese bases in Indo-China, Hainan, Formosa and the mandated islands to the east of the Philippines, Manila is now almost encircled by Japanese outposts...
...mile sea route from Cam-ranh Bay to Nagasaki, and U.S. planes, submarines and surface vessels operating from Manila could make it an uncomfortable route. To reach Indo-China the Japanese have to pass through one of two channels-the 150-mile channel between Formosa and the mainland or the 235-mile channel between Formosa and Luzon-where patrols can keep a good lookout...