JOINT ACTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 April 1940, Page 5

JOINT ACTION

PROTECTION OF DUTCH INDIES SAID TO BE FAVOURED BY JAPAN. CONTINUATION OF ECONOMIC RIGHTS. I By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, April 16. The Tokio correspondent of the United Press of America says that according to a reliable informant the Japanese Government is agreeable to an arrangement by which a number of Powers will protect the Dutch East Indies, provided Japan is assured of a continuation of her economic rights in the Indies. JAPANESE CLAIM NEW YORK PRESS CRITICISM. NEW YORK. April 17. Cargo rates to the Far East have been raised by 50 per cent. Japanese Government bonds have declined six points. The New York “Herald Tribune” points out that Britain's and the United States' trade interests in the Dutch East Indies exceed Japan’s. It adds:. “Since Japan has been the major disturber of peace in East Asia for a decade, her claim to the right to extend her police power southward elicits only derision and resentment from the United States. If she tries to assert naval supremacy on Singapore’s doorstep she will certainly not be long in stumbling into war and forfeiting what little American consideration she still enjoys."