‘■The Japanese could nut five trained and fully-armed men into Now Zealand for every man lock in this country.” said Mr T. S. Fraser, who after spending 16 years in Hong Kong, mainly in local government service, has been visiting Now Zealand and is shortly to leave for Singapore. Mr Fraser said that he did not think New Zealand was fully alive to the danger from Japan, and he considered that everyone should be trained to bear arms for the possible defence of the Dominion. He said that the Japanese were ruthless in their methods of dealing with the Chinese, and it should bo membered that although New Zealand was far away from Germany she was (near Japan.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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