BIG JAPANESE HOPES
CONTROL OF THE SEAS
(Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 2.
The Swiss radio, quoting a Japanese naval headquarters spokesman, says that Japan aims not only at the occupation of Malay a j but the entire Dutch East Indies, thus consolidating her claim to a new Japanese ocean which would include the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea, and the Pacific Ocean.
The Stockholm "Svenska Dagbladet's" Tokio correspondent says that the Japanese anticipate that heavy artillery and the air force will chiefly decide the fate of Singapore, coupled with the exhaustion of supplies owing to Japanese control of the south-west approach which will prevent fresh arrivals. : The Japanese also count on water supply difficulties. A Tokio message says that Japanese military observers say that the capture (Of Amboina Island, in the Malaccas, will give Japanese airmen the springboard for operations as far south as Darwin. ' ■>
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1942, Page 5
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