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...Enough. The crowds read anxiously of the southwestern danger...
...Japs win the Bay of Bengal, they will have all but won the Battle of India. They did not win the Bay last week. But they inflicted terrible naval losses on the British. Near the key island of Ceylon, at the southwestern entrance to the Bay of Bengal, R.A.F. fighters knocked down at least 75 Jap planes. Yet, after a week of combat, the British were weaker, the Japanese were relatively stronger than they had been when the battle started...
...tiny seaports like Broome and Wyndham (where Jap planes have also attacked). For the present the Japs can probably win bridgeheads at such places if they want to take the trouble. Based there, they would still be 1,450 miles from the one worthwhile western objective, the southwestern port of Perth, and its surrounding farm, cattle and mineral lands...
When the "China Incident" broke out, Yamashita fought in North China under the command of another Germanophile, General Count Juichi Terauchi. Count Terauchi, who has since visited Germany (see cut), was last week named Supreme Commander of the entire southwestern Pacific theater...
Battle for Time. General Sir Archibald Wavell, Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in the Southwestern Pacific had a clear sense of the importance of Singapore's battle. Said he last week to the men on Singapore...