Approximately 130 planes have been based in Hanoi and Haiphong for some time, and these were recently reinforced. It was also reported that about. 300 planes have been stationed at Hainan Island, 180 on the Spratley Islands and another 300 in Formosa,
Japanese demands likely would fol-was generally expected the new low a more drastic policy than adopted toward Indo-China recently. Despite the influence exerted by industrialist and conservative leaders, it wes known that some Japanese leaders were convinced that Japan could obtain useful concessions from Indo-China without gravely risking effective British-American intervention or counter-action.
Such a programme, according to the Japanese belief as interpreted here, would secure new sources of food and raw materials for the Japanese, as well es useful bases, while simultane oonsly convincing Chancellor Adolf Hitler that the Japanese were clu fully collaborating with Axis policy.
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