The Archive · 1940

Air Supremacy Claimed

The article said that with the landing of Japanese planes in Hanoi on October 5 under the terms of the Franco-Japanese agreement, the Japanese army "now has complete alr supremacy in Yunnan and See-

The destruction of the Burma route by bombing was considered an easy undertaking" by Japanese Army, chiefs in Hanoi, the report said.

The report concluded with the remark that Generalissimo Chiang Kalshek "now can no longer escape at-{tack by Japanese planes."

'At the same time, the Japanese press today alleged that the Far' Eastern policy adopted by the roosevelt "Administration was unpopular with "some sections of the American. public."~United Press

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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