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...week's end, the Aruba's 42-man crew issued a new deadline: they would not man the ship beyond the Nicobar Islands at the entrance to the Malacca Strait. Sadly, the Re-Be Co. sent a message to Peking through its Hong Kong agents. The Far East Enterprising Co. (HK) Ltd. Its gist: the Aruba could go no farther; if the Reds want their jet fuel, they will have to come...
...Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied Southeast Asia commander, was now able to consider: 1) a move to cut off the Malay peninsula by a thrust through Moulmein to Bangkok; 2) a drive at southern Malaya and Singapore by way of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean...
...Indies Fleet units, standing in to the Gulf of Martaban, shelled the flatlands south of Rangoon. Paratroops floated down south of Rangoon to smooth the way for amphibious forces. Far to the southwest, in the Bay of Bengal, aircraft carriers and battleships carried out strikes on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to prevent interference with the big show...
Hero of the attack was Lieut. Commander L. W. A. Bennington, commander of a submarine force (the "Porpoise Carrier") which kept Malta alive at the height of its blockade. In the Pacific, his submarine crept through the grey-green waters of the Bay of Bengal, past the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which screen the Singapore-Rangoon sea lanes, scouted the narrow (225 mi.) northern approaches of the Malacca Straits. He attacked and sank three large cargo vessels, sighted the cruiser and closed at full speed...
...Allied drive from India will find the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Sumatra and Malaya stoutly defended. Japanese air power centers around Singapore. Any enemy approach will be both costly and foolhardy...