Japan Needs Oil
-- | "9-FHIRDS of Japan’s oil requirements were supplied by the United States. Most of the remainder was supplied by the Dutch East Indies. The total embargo on oil which the United States: applied to Japan a tew months ago, made the Dutch oilfields a necessity to Japan. She must have oil. She could get it nowhere else. But athwart Japan’s southward drive for oil lies Singapore. With 2,500 miles of ocean separating Tokio and Singapore, the Japanese Navy used not seriously — to threaten Singapore. But, during the last few years, Japan has acquired intermediate bases. First, Hainan Island, off the extreme southern coast of China, was taken. Later, came the seizure of the Spratley group of small coral islands, almost dead in the centre of the South China Sea. France claimed these islands, but her protest was ignored by Japan. At one bound Japan had jumped to within 700 miles of Singapore, and had secured a potential submarine and seaplane base only a few hours away.(National Service Talk from all National Stations, January 11.) }
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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176Japan Needs Oil New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 136, 30 January 1942, Page 5
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