Japs Eye Indies & India

After the Battle. The face of the world had a different expression after Singapore. The great lecherous eye of Japan's military power stared from its newly won profile. It ogled bejeweled India. It peeped up the rippling skirts of the Indian Ocean. It winked at little Madagascar, over by Africa's side. It was a gleaming eye, because now the key to the seraglio was in Japan's hot hand.

Singapore was the key. So long as Singapore had been in British hands, easy access to the Indian Ocean had been denied Japan. Now, with Singapore taken and Sumatra under fire, the Jap could, if he wished, send his Navy and his Army into the one great sector of the earth which had been exclusively and safely British.

He could, as well, cut off China's present lifeline and any alternates which the Allies might devise. He might, if he could get bases in Madagascar from the Vichy-french, interrupt the British supply line to Suez and the Middle East.

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