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DEARTH IN JAPAN

.NAZIS URGING COUNTRY TO WAR

RETIRED ADMIRAL'S VIEW

CONFLICT OVER INDIES INEVITABLE.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrxgh NEW YORK. January 31.

Sir Victor Sassoon a distinguished English banker who has for many years been associated with India and the Far East' has arrived at San Francisco by the Clipper from Hong Kong.. He said that Japan’s internal situation is anything but good, and there is a definite shortage of food, labour, and oil reserves. German advisers are swarming through the country, urging it to war. he added. A message states that the Tokio Cabinet has submitted to Parliament a swooping Bill providing the death penalty without appeal for peace time espionage.

Cabinet made public a Bill for revisions of the national mobilisation law to be submitted to the Diet on Saturday. The revision Bill calls for a wide extension of the scope of State control over materials, industries and banking. The House of Peers, a Tokio message states, unanimously passed a supplementary military appropriation Bill of 1,000.000.000 yen which the Diet had already passed. Admiral Ryozo Nakamura, a retired officer, in a speech said that the Dutch East Indies would become an inevitable ground for conflict between the United States and Japan, and that whichever country stepped into the area first would be the victor. It is announced that the Soviet Union has agreed to resume negotiations for the conclusion of a commercial agreement with Japan besides undertaking to discuss a permanent Soviet-Japanese fisheries treaty.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 8

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246

DEARTH IN JAPAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 8

DEARTH IN JAPAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1941, Page 8

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