'ARE TREACHERY'

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 100, 24 August 1945, Page 4

'ARE TREACHERY'

JAPAN has through the centuries been nurturcll in the very lap of treachery itself. Her brazon history shows that most of her victories and conquests have been mainly due to the double-dealing and utter shamelessness of her statesmen* China knows it to her cost., Russia smarts under the memories of the 'stab-in-the-back' in 1904 when without any formal declaration, Japan made unprovoked war on her by attacking Port Arthur. The mask has now been ripped from the face of the oily commercial masquerader, for the whole world now knows of 'Pearl Harbour,' of the attacks upon the Phillipines, the Malay States, on Singapore and on Hongkong. The story of Nippon fairly reeks with perfidy, both in her commercial and trading activities as in her diplomatic dealings with the rest of the world. Today though a country admitting defeat, her Emperor,, the very diety of the people, uses evasive and vague terms in his broadcasts. The Military and Naval heads who have shouldered the responsibility for the suing for peace, delayed the despatching of their envoys for over a week* The very atmosphere of Nippon's capitulation which dragged on for ten days was highly suspicious. Now we approach the final occupation of Japan. The whole of the combined Allied fleet, together with the pick of a dozen Army Corps, draws steadily nearer the little-known shores of the Mikado's Empire. 'Ware treachery.'