JAPAN RESOLUTE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 94, 17 October 1940, Page 12

JAPAN RESOLUTE

BURMA ROAD ISSUE

WILL STRIKE FATAL BLOW

GENERAL'S THREAT

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received October 17, 2 p.m.) HANOI, October 16. Major-General Raishiro Sumita, Japanese military commander in Indo-China, declared that Japan is resolutely determined to prevent United States and other war materials from reaching the Chinese. He indicated that war planes would do their utmost to strike a fatal blow jat the Burma Road,- but attacks j could be expected only after supplies had entered Chinese territory. LONDON, October 16. Reports from Shanghai say that.the Chinese Government is eagerly awaiting the re-opening of the Burma Road on Friday. Loaded trucks are waiting at the British end of the road, but it is not expected that any considerable number will take the road at the same time. In fact, the Chinese will probably avoid any large concentration of trucks at any point because of possible Japanese bombing. The main Chinese interest is in a steady flow of traffic in and out of China. • j A Reuter correspondent says that large quantities of material to be used in the reconstrutcion of Chungking have arrived in Burma.

The road is now in good condition, the rains have stopped, and moonlight will help the truck drivers. = The Chinese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, who arrived today at Rangoon, said that China's war needs were being supplied by the United States, but Britain was helping as far as possible.

The Japanese Domei agency says that Japanese forces are to remain in northern Indo-China "because of Chinese military pressure."