CONQUEST OF JAPAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 87, 6 July 1945, Page 4

CONQUEST OF JAPAN

JAPAN, the last remaining partner in the notorious Axis, is now actively preparing her entire population for the inevitable invasion of her hitherto inviolate shores. Tokio radio is today pouring out the desperate type of propaganda which is calculated to whip up the already fanatical faith of the Nipponese into a religious frenzy, which in turn is expected to intimidate potential invaders by its fervour and its complete abandon. The entire peoples "of the Japanese islands are to be regimented into a home army, for the long and desperate and suicidal defence of the homeland, the prospects of which are growing more ominous day by day as the island bastions fall before the Allied Pacific onslaught. The picture of the internal reaction ir» Imperial Japan to the repeated defeats suffered by the forces of the Mikado is safely guarded under the radio front of unity and aggressiveness, but sufficient has leaked out to indicate that already even the common people are beginning to realise that' all is not well, and that the unheard of, is about to happen. The armies of Japan are no longer invincible in spite of the fabled protection of the Gods; the boasted 'new order' in Asia, with Japan as its special exponent has fallen down under the resentment of the native populations to Japanese oppression and beastiality; the ruling Sumarai class with its prophesies of constant victories is not infallable. These things are dawning fast upon the Jap. masses, who as they are forced to join the home forces, must be even now realising that they have been made the. dupes of successive generations of war-loving imperialists. Full well the AJlied comanders realise that only the actual conquest of Japan can achieve a lasting peace in the Orient, and full well too, they realise that the ina-vsion will be the greatest and bloodiest military undertaking in the history of Pacific warfare.