3* In the Indian Ocean the operations may be carried out beyond the zone-borders /zone limits/ agreed upon above according to the situation. "II. General Operations plan. 1* Japan. will, working together with the German and Italian operations against England and the U.S.A., carry out the operations in the South Sea Area and in the Pacific. (a)She will destroy important English, United States, and the Netherlands bases in Greater East Asia, /and/ attack or occupy their territories in that area. (b)She will seek the annihilation of the North American and English land, sea, and air forces in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean, in order to secure for her¬self the control of the seas in the Western Pacific. (c)If the North American and English fleets concentrate largely in the Atlantic, Japan will reinforce her commerce raiding /Handelskrieg/ in the entire area of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean and, in addition, send part of her naval forces to the Atlantic and there collaborate directly with the German and Italian Navies. 2. Germany and Italy* will, in cooperation with the Japanese operations in the South Sea Area and the Pacific, carry out the opera¬tions against England and the United States of America. (a) They will destroy important English and United States bases in the Hear East and Middle East, in the Mediterranean Sea and