ARRESTS IN JAPAN.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 260, 1 October 1940, Page 8

ARRESTS IN JAPAN.

BRITISH SUBJECTS INDICTED

(Rec. 1.45 p.m.) 1 TOKIO, Sept. 30. Ten Britons who have been under arrest since September, 27 have been indicted on charges of violation ot the Military Secrets Protection Law and the naval and criminal codes of the Military Resources Protection Law, wdiile several others are being examined,'

One Japanese was indicted and fifty others were warned to account for their pro-British activities. The indieted persons include a retired captain, Charles H. James; also George A. James. Ernest W. James, Micliael .Unger, Hamish McNaughton, Henry Blyth, John Drummond, William T. Charles, and T. B. Willey.

NEW NAME-OLD METHODS,

GRANDIOSE PACT ANALYSED.

(British Official AVircless.) RUGBY, Sept. 29

Commenting on tho neiv Gorman-ltalian-Japanese pact, the Sunday Times says: “The alliance is, ot course, primarily aimed at America. Japan hopes that it will deter Mr Roosevelt from action in the Pacific, and Germany and Italy that it will prevent him from coming to the aid of Britain. It is not in the least likely to be influential either way, and it does not represent any substantial change in the pre-existing situation. “Japan is fully occupied in the China AA’ar and she cannot expect help on her side of the world, from the European dictators,” the newspaper states. “Nor can Germany and Italy look for aid from Japan. America will not be frightened by H-itler’s redressing of his war facade.” Mr J. L. Garvin, writing in the Observer, states: ‘lo belittle the significance of the new triple alliance would be the absurdity of ‘ostnehisrn,’ and its mischief for a time may soon become equal to its ambition. It is a challenge to another world war embracing all the continents more completely than the last. Yet, when we look to the end, this grandoise treaty is like tho flamboyant prospectus of a new suicide club. ' . “This ‘document of historical importance/ as Ribbcntrop calls it, is as directly anti-American as it is antiBritish, and at the same time it is covertly anti-Russian. To grip the Soviet empire in a vice as a means of holding it to good behaviour from the Near East to the Ear East is a chief object and one transparently veiled." The new order referred to in the agreement is, observes Mr Garvin, another name for rhe old business of despotism, force, conquest and exploitation.