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...Japanese soldiers smashed the doors of two warehouses in Haiphong, seized $10,000,000 worth of U.S. products destined for China...
...reliable Occidental informant, said that "a Japanese battle fleet" was concentrated off Haiphong, Indo-China, yesterday, but that "nothing was known of the reasons" for the demonstration...
Instead of the 6,000 Japanese troops which, by agreement with unoccupied France, were to be permitted to man three Indo-Chinese air bases, Chinese sources reported last week that 38,000 Japanese troops with 60 tanks had landed at Haiphong. Instead of withdrawing, the 20,000 Japanese who "by mistake" had invaded the colony near Dong Dang and Langson the week before, were advancing on Hanoi, the capital. One of the first big grabs by the invading Japanese was 1,000 U. S.-made motor trucks at Haiphong. Other characteristic acts included humiliating white Europeans in front of Orientals...
...Order. That Japan had come to Indo-China to stay was plain. Shipping between Formosa and Haiphong stepped up, hotels teemed as more than 1,000 Japanese and Formosans set up businesses...
...against South China, it was also the first move in consolidation of the flanks preceding an attack on Singapore. Since Thailand last week showed itself in complete sympathy with the Japanese by sending over French Indo-China a lone "token" bomber, and since there is a good railroad from Haiphong to strategic Saigon to the south, this single stroke practically sewed up the western flank. The eastern flank, comprising the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, was also partially blanketed-by the three-way pact. The pact was largely directed at the U. S., and in Washington it was believed that...