BOMBING PLANNED
JAPANESE WARPLANES' BLOW AT BURMA ROUTE ARMAMENTS FOR CHINA CHINESE PREPARE TRUCKS (.New., by Cable.) LONDON, Oet. 10. According to a report Iroin Hanoi, Major-General Kaisluro Sumita, the Japanese military commander in ln-do-Cluua, declared that Japan is resolutely determined to prevent United States and other wSr materials reaching the Chinese. He indicated that warplanes would do their utmost to strike a fatal blow at the Burma road, but the attacks could be expected only after the supplies had entered Chinese territory. . A message from Lashio, Burma, says that Chinese technicians aie preparing approximately 2000 American lorries for the reopening of the Burma road on Friday. There will be a simple ceremony in which the Chinese and British will participate. . .Jfl
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Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 323, 18 October 1940, Page 3
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