Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1941 — Page 7

British Colony Is ‘Leak’ in

China. but That Break Will Not Be Easy

For Nippon This is the fifth in a series A. T. Steele. Br AT

Cerrright

ft ever attempt to invade Burma, Burma Road to China.

Burma is a Far Eastern Iraq. Like Iraq, it has large underground reserves of petroleum. Like Iraq, it is cushioned by a French colony—

Indo-China. Its other buffer against aggression is the little kingdom of Thailand British naturally

nerevousness been enhanced by

panese pressure on Thailand and] However, Burma be. | lieves itself safe until the Japanese]

ghdo-China

are prepared to risk war with Great

If that day comes, Burma] must brace itself for air raids on] are India's}

ft oil wells (which chief source of supply), for bomb{ng attacks on the Burma Road and perhaps even for invasion.

Reinforcements of swarthy, tur-} which have]

been landing recently in large num-|

baned Punjabi troops,

are an

bers at Rangoon's docks, Though

evidence of British fears Burma's defenses are gtill far from adequate, it is now pelieved that there are enough Indian. English and Burmese fighters along the mountainous eastern frontier to make any invasion a yerv costly undertaking. Target Burma Road

Oil is an importaht but secondary reason for Japanese interest in| Burma Of most concern is the Burma Road to China. which makes this country the chief remaining

| ACROSS TO BURMACAN JAPAN G0 T00?

{241 bv The Indianapolit Times and the Chicago Daily News, Ine.

RANGOON, Budma—(By Clipper)—Journeyed here from Bangkok, Thailand, over a route the Japanese Army may some day follow should

here has!

admittedly

channel of supply for American airplanes and war materials earmarked | for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. | The Japanese blockade of China| can never be a complete success as; long as this route remains open.| Bombing of the highway on the; Chinese side has proved ineffective. | The Japanese have a choice of four]

ways to plug the Burma leak—all] fraught with difficulties. The first and most obvious method would be to invade Southwest China and cut the highway; but this would neces-| gitate many divisions of troops and | a long line of communications. A second possibility would be aj Japanese naval blockade of the Bur- | ma coast: but this would involve! halting and searching American and] British ships. To make it legal! would require a declaration of war on China. A third way would be to induce the British to close the highway as a gesture of appeasement to Japan; but the British say they are through with this kind of appeasement and do not wish to antagonize China nd the United States Finally, the Japanese could invade Burma: but that would mean war. Moreover, there are only two through roads between Thailand and Burma and none between IndoChina and Burma. Distances are great and the natural obstacles are numerous, including an 80-mile belt of forested mountains and two wide, swift rivers.

Slow Going

To see what the Japanese would be up against, I journeyed from Bangkok (Thailand) to Rangoon (Burma) over the seldom-used overland route. For a third of the 600-mile journey I traveled over the Siamese State Railways to Pitsnuloke, in the heart of Thailand. There I changed toc an American-

We're ‘Speclin’ Everybody in Town.

| the English Raj, of all he surveyed

| dingy courtroom.

iset Maugham tradition. A punka,

Japan's Iron Barrier Around

to Repair.

of articles from the Far East by

STEELE seize its oil fields and sever the

A truck rolls along the winding Burma Road, China's lifeline.

built plane of the Thai Airways and was whisked 180 miles westward to Mesod., a village only three miles from the Burma border.

A two-wheeled cart, powered by a couple of huge but lethargic oxen, was waiting for me at the cow-pas-ture airport. It took as long to negotiate the three dusty, bumpy miles from Mesod to the frontier as it had taken to cover the entire 180 miles from Pitsnuloke. At the narrow river separating Thailand from Burma, I expected! to encounter sentries, customs examiners and barbed wire entanglements. There was nothing. It was the first international frontier I have ever crossed without a question asked. Mv half-naked. caramelcolored driver simply urged his team unceremoniously across the shallow stream and a few moments later we were parked in the single street of the Burmese jungle town of Menam Moei. The only other occupant of the street, besides an assortment of livestock, was a dilapidated truck. I approached its driver and gleaned, from his semi-intelligible English, that he was going my way. For an adequate consideration, I was provided with a place in the driver's seat. With 10 other less fortunate passengers — Indians, Burmans and Siamese — clinging precariously to our load, we rattled off toward Kawkareit, chief town of that border region. It was a 40-mile run, cver mountain roads lined with forests of towering, broad-leafed teak. In Maugham Tradition

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