At midnight ihe "three-month Anglo-Japanese agreement for the closure of the Burma Highway expires, inaugurating what appears to be a new and firmer British policy toward Japan. Reports from the Chinese side of the Burma border today seid that military preparations had been completed there to protect conveys &s soon as they enter the China section of the Burma Highway. Jap ial attacks are expected on on the Chinese.side of the border at dawn.
Chinese officials here said today that the Chungking Government has taken "adequate steps to protect the entire Burma Road against the threatened Japanese bombing the Japanese probably would find it necessary to fly at high altitudes over important objectives along the high. way and therefore would not be able to bomb accurately.
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