Strategists Differ Over Burma Road
(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received Monday, 11.20 p.m. NEW YORK, March 13. Since Admiral Nimitz’s statement about the opening of a port on the China coast, strategists who think that Burma can he bypassed by cutting the Malay Peninsula have been acquiring confidence, says the New York Times' Chungking correspondent. They believe Burma can be conquered almost without a fight if Thailand, Malaya and the Netherlands Indies are dissected. The strategists think the Burma Road has become a fetish and even if opened appreciable deliveries over it could not be started soon enough to justify fighting in Burma’s jungles. The correspondent adds: “China’s worries will not be over when Nimitz opens a port, thereforo American policy here demands that the Chinese army must be trained and reequipped to help open the port from the land side and fight the Japanese after that. All this requires land transport. General Stilwell still believes the Burma Road must be reopened and Lord Louis Mountbatten is supporting his plans.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 60, 14 March 1944, Page 5
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