The Archive · 1941

Indo-China a Bridge For Japan Vichy Weakness Encourages

Tokyo -Expansionists While Japan is engaged in building a "bridge" by means of which she will be able to realize her southward programme, the United States should lose no time in sending military, supplies to China so that the latter may be able to launch a large-scale counter offensive against the Japanese, thus preventing the aggressor from achieving his aim, Washington is strongly urged to do this in an editorial published by the "Chinese American Daily News," a leading Chinese daily here.

The paper believes that by mediate ing between Thailand and Indo-China, Japan is building a "bridge" for moving southward. The conciliatory attitude taken by Vichy and the possible conclusion of the peace negotiations between Thailand and Indo-

China indicate that the possibility of starting a war in the Pacific it is stated Japanese tions' nst Indo-China have so far been so successful that the paper predicts that the day may soon come or France to withdraw completely from Indo-China.

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