BURMA DEFENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 107, 1 November 1941, Page 9

BURMA DEFENCE

GROWN POWERFUL NOW

AMERICAN'S REVIEW!

A WARNING TO TOJO

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. %

(Rec. 9 a.m.) RANGOON, Oct. 31.

The importance of Rangoon, a. funnel for the Burma Road and also China's lifeline for the maintenance of her fight against Japan, is stressed in a message from the American journalist Royal Arch. Gunnison.

He says: ."Bigger things are going on in Bifrma today than most people realise—and not everything is going over the Burma Road."

Discussions, Mr. Gunnison adds, are being held there and in nearby territories which affect Malaya, America, and the Pacific, as well as India and the Middle East.. Mr. Gunnison proceeds: "Since most of the material going over the Burma Road comes from America to China, an American decision for the protection of this material is not out of place. , This story cannot be told yet, but when it can, I, as an American, can, assure my readers that it will be one of the most, dramatic of the war.

"I have been up country in Burma,

and have seen air stations manned by ,■ Australians and New Zealanders. There is more in it than meets the eye.

"The Japanese are trying hard to learn the British strength here by all kinds of snooping.

"May I-address a memo to General To jo? 'Dear General, —Don't believe all you hear about the Burmans being pro-Japanese.

"'Don't believe your agents who tell you the Burma Road is»not protected. Don't think your little scheme to stick air bases on western Indo-China and to persuade the Thais to build western air bases are all covered by the glare of the rising sun from the east.

"'Don't think Uncle Sam and John Bull are concerned only with the Battle of the Atlantic.

" 'My final word: You've missed tha bus along the Burma Road. Moreover, Thailand may not be the cinch you think.'" '