BURMA ROUTE.
TALK OF DESTRUCTION. TOKIO, Oct, 6. The Hanoi correspondent of the Asahi Shimbun says that the reopening of the Burma Road by the British will not affect Japan, because, with the landing of J apanese planes at Hanoi under the terms of the agreement between Japan and Indo-China, the Japanese now 'liave complete air supremacy in Yunnan and Szechwan. In view of this, the aerial destruction of the Burma route is considered “very easy.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 7
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76BURMA ROUTE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 265, 8 October 1940, Page 7
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