NO OIL IN BURMA FOR JAPANESE
(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) NEW DELHI, May 31. General Sir Harold Alexander in a Press conference said the Japanese would not get one drop of petrol from Burma for a year. Asked why reinforcements had not reached Burma by land, he said the road over which his army retreated to India was completed only a week before and then sappers were at work on it.
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Southland Times, Issue 24758, 1 June 1942, Page 5
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