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More crucial for the N.E.I.'s allies, the Jap would control one of the world's most important seaways. From Java and Sumatra his raiders could range into the Indian Ocean, slash at supplies bound for Suez and India...
...Jap has already struck at the Indies, hard, viciously, successfully. He has landed troops in Sarawak. He has put down three landing parties on the northern handle of Celebes, from which he may well establish some sort of control over sea traffic in the Straits of Macassar and Molucca Strait to the east and west of Celebes. He has also grabbed the little Dutch island of Tarakan (off Borneo), where the oil flows from the wells so pure that it can be pumped into the fuel bunkers of ships without refining...
...Tarakan, the Dutch preparation for the Jap's coming was good as could be made. Tarakan was reportedly garrisoned by around 1,000 crack Dutch colonials. Hopelessly outnumbered by the Jap landing party, they fought hard, while behind them other Dutchmen blew up the wells and pipelines, did a thorough job of demolition. The Jap had to pay well. He took hits on a cruiser, two destroyers, four transports, suffered some sinkings. But Tarakan was overwhelmed, nevertheless. The Jap brought drilling equipment with him. The Dutch feared that in a few months he would be getting...
...Indies. Lean, weathered Major General L. H. van Oyen, commander of the N.E.I. Air Force, did not have enough planes of his own to meet him at every point. This week Washington announced that he had got something more than token help. Five U.S. bombers raided a Jap base in northern Celebes,* were speedily jumped upon by Jap interceptors. Without pursuit support, the bombers fought it out spectacularly. They reported they had knocked down nine Jap fighters. They lost two ships, brought home a third damaged, with four crew members wounded...
Unless they come soon, the Jap has a good prospect of winning the Indies and riveting his hold on the most vital sea routes still held by the Democracies off Asia...