Saigon. Feb. 2.
Japan plans to strengthen her posi-n in southern-Indo-China for the purpose of using it as a "springboard" for Japanese action directed against either the Netherlands East Indies or Singapore, a neutral diplomatic source told the United Press tonight.
This source said that although the outline of the plans was clear,' he could not say whether they were to be directed principally against the in Singapore or against the ther lands East Indies.
(The Saigon censor here eliminated details of these plans.)
It was believed that the Japanese ad already revealed to the French authorities. either in Tokyo or in Vichy, what their intention were. Full details of the Japanese plans would be revealed during the course of the peace negotiations to be held in Toko.—United Press.
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