IN THE FAR EAST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1940, Page 5

IN THE FAR EAST

EVENTS & DEVELOPMENTS SOVIET REBUFFS JAPAN. MORE AMERICAN PLANES SENT TO PHILIPPINES. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 23. A Shanghai report says it is reported without confirmation that the Soviet Union has rejected a request by Tokio to discontinue aid to Chungking. Two hundred Japanese naval reservists are stated to have been unexpectedly mobilised to be sent home. A Chungking message states that during the past 40 months of ChineseJapanese hostilities, 986 Japanese aircraft have been destroyed by Chinese planes or brought down by ground forces. These figures do not include damaged aeroplanes which crashed behind the Chinese lines. British property has suffered very heavy damage as a result of the Japanese attacks since the beginning of the war. The British property losses are 1,949,465 Chinese dollars; that to American property 1,468,000 dollars, Italian 744,000 dollars, German 150,0000 dollars, Spanish 30,000 dollars and French 17,000 dollars. The spokesman for the Chinese Air Force declared that these figures do not include the losses by foreign Governments and institutions. Shanghai reports that a raiding party of the Chinese Fourth Route Army today boarded a Japanese freighter on the Yangtse and captured two officers and 10 members of the crew, after which the ship was set on fire and sank. The Tokio “Nichi Niehl Shimbun's” Batavia correspondent says, givingevidence of anti-Japancse feeling in the East Indies, that Mr. Taneyoshi Yoshimi, proprietor of a Japanese ironworks, and his wife were passing a police station when they were dragged from their carriage by the police and beaten and severely injured. Admiral Tyozo Nakamura, in an article in the "Kokumin Shimbun,” advocating immediate war against the United States, asserted that the United States was the greatest factor in blocking the attainment of Japan's mission in East Asia. Manila reports that a United Stales Army pursuit squadron numbering 177 men and officers arrived in almost war-time secrecy. Interviews and photographs were forbidden. This represents the strongest reinforcement to the Philippines since the deterioration of Japanese-American relations.