Early attempts by the Japanese army to prevent the Burmese from establishing a meaningfully independent government were successful. When Suzuki attempted to establish an independent BIA government following the fall of Moulmein on 30 January 1942 he was prevented by orders from the Japanese Fifty-Fifth Army Division. The army also refused the distribution of leaflets proclaiming the independence of Burma, even though this had been previously agreed to. On 9 February 1942 the Japanese South Area Army ordered its officers to delay independence until after the war was over. When the BIA entered Rangoon in March, ten days after the Japanese Army had taken it, they attempted to set up an independent administration at the governor's house, but were prevented from doing so by the Japanese Army, who had already occupied the building and were using it as the headquarters of their military administration. The BIA formed an administration for the country under Suzuki Keiji and Thakin Tun Oke that operated in parallel with the Japanese military administration for several months, but this government was soon superseded and effectively disbanded by the administration of the Japanese South Area Army in June 1942.