The article said that with the landing of Japanese planes in Hanoi on October 5 under the terms of the Franco-Japanese agreement, Japanese army "now has air supremacy in Yunnan and Sze-chan provinces,"
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 Kaishek "now can no longer escape attack by Japanese planes."
At the same time, the Japanese press today alleged that the Fam Eastern policy adopted by the; Roosevelt Administration was une'! popular with "some sections of the American public."
Actualities "Realized" significant," said the "Yomiuri "that some sections of. American public opinion are beginning to realize the actualities of the situation and are coolly reconsidering America's future attitude."
In this connection the paper cited the recent suggestions by Mr. Roy Howard, head of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, and Mr. C. V. Whitney, Pan-American airways director, that joint Japanese-American commission. be formed to examine the Far Easter; situation.
The paper also pointed to recent criticism of Washington's Far Easterh; policy by Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Republican isolationist, and Mr, Hamilton Fish, Republican Repre-: sentative of New York.—United Press, Noble Rescue Work of
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