JAPAN GIVES NOTICE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1940, Page 5

JAPAN GIVES NOTICE

OBJECTION TO BLOCKADE OF VLADIVOSTOK FEARS OF AN EXTENSION OF THE WAR. CRITICISM OF AMERICAN MANOEUVRES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. TOKIO, April 4. An Admiralty spokesman warned the British Navy not to institute a blockade of the Russian port of Vladivostok. He added that in the event of illegalities the Japanese Navy might be compelled to take measures. The Navy strongly objected to an extension of the war to waters near Japan. Though the Sea of Japan was not a territorial water, in Japanese eyes it was a Japanese lake. The spokesman said that the United States naval manoeuvres were open to criticism as aggression against Japan. The United States was brandishing a big sword near Japanese territory, and the Japanese people were understandably uneasy. BRITAIN’S INTENTION RIGHTS TO BE EXERCISED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day. 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, April 4. It is learned in official circles in reference to the hope Japan has expressed that Britain will avoid naval action near Japanese shores that there is no intention of Britain committing any illegal action, but that it is impossible to forego legal rights as a belligerent and that Britain intends to exercise them when necessary.