AREA DEFINED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1943, Page 3

AREA DEFINED

ADMIRAL MOUNTBATTEN'S COMMAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 22. Admiral Mountbatten’s South-East Asia Command, says Reuter in the first disclosure of its boundaries, extends over French Indo-China, Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra and Burma. It excludes India and Persia. The sea regions extend from the south-eastern coast of Sumatra, excluding the Sunda Straits, southward along a line entirely excluding Australia, and take in the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea to its western boundary. cutting the Persian coast 140 miles east of the Jask line, and then just misses the tip of Arabia and runs south to Albatross Island, thence south-east-ward, avoiding Rodriguez Island and thus excluding Madagascar, Reunion and the Mauritius Group.

The eastern boundary goes due south from Singapore to the north coast of Sumatra and thence round the east coast of Sumatra to a point 104 degrees east on the coast of Sumatra, then south to latitude .08 degrees south, thence south-east toward Onslow and, when longitude 110 is reached, due south along that meridian.