BURMA DRIVE
OBJECTIVE OF WAVELL
BASES TO BOMB JAPAN
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10 a.m.) » NEW YQRK, December 27. . The long-range objective of General Waveil's thrust into Burma is the heavy-scale bombing of Japan, writes Captain Fredric Oliver, in the "Christian Science Monitor." He explains that the Chinese bases are.excellent for this purpose, but at present unusable because supplies are only trickling there over air routes from Russia and India. Few transport planes carry over 12 tons, and only 40 planes are available altogether, therefore the supplies at present flown from India amount to 1 per cent, of the traffic formerly carried by the Burma Road. But if General Wavell reopens the road sufficient supplies will be available at Chinese bases to carry out an aerial offensive against Japan of equal intensity to that being waged against Germany. \
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5
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138BURMA DRIVE Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 154, 28 December 1942, Page 5
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