MENACE TO INDIES
DUTCH GOVERNOILGENERAL BROADCASTS JAPANESE THRUST AT CENTRE OF DEFENCES. SALWEEN RIVER CROSSED IN BURMA. LONDON, February 3. The Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies in a broadcast revealed that all communication with Ambon (or Amboina, the Dutch island naval base) has been broken off. He added, “The danger in our territorial waters has increased. The Japanese are aiming at surrounding our archipelago and are trying to thrust their way through from the north to the centre of our defences.” Increased enemy air activity is reported over Bangka, an island off south-east Sumatra, commanding the channel between Sumatra and Borneo. Press messages from Rangoon stated that some Japanese units in Burma have managed to cross the Salween River near the mouth and have infiltrated into hill country. A New Delhi message says that Chinese forces have thrown back Japanese troops at Nanchang, 180 miles due east of Changsha.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 3
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