TOKIO THREATS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1941, Page 6

TOKIO THREATS

| ADDRESSED TO THE DUTCH INDIES I CLAIM LAID TO NEUTRAL RESOURCES. . SOUTH SEAS AS JAPAN'S LIFELINE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i (Received This Dav. 11.55 a.m.i TOKIO. February 3. The newspaper “Yomiuri” has warned the Netherlands Indies that obstinate adherence to the BritishAmerican fold would forfeit its existence in a Greater Asia under the combined attack of all the Asiatic powers. Mr Hoshino. President of the Cabinet Planning Board, told the House Budget Committee that Japan was justified under the prevailing circumstances in utilising neutral resources in the South Seas as the only means of strengthening Japan's national power as soon as possible. The South Seas region was Japan's lifeline.

PROTEST REJECTED

ECONOMIC & POLITICAL ASPECTS. (Received This Day. 11.55 a.m.) LONDON. February 3. Mr Ohasi rejected General Pabst's representation that the Netherlands East Indies would not participate in Japan's new order in East Asia. Mr Ohasi said Japan was concerned only with the economic, not the political aspects. of Asiatic expansion: hence the Batavia parley would be continued despite the objections of the Netherlands Government in London. General Pabst Netherlands Minister in Tokio, was instructed to deliver a message to the Japanese Foreign Minister <Mr Matsuoka) that the Netherlands Government will reject any suggestion of having the East Indies incorporated ih a new order in East Asia under the leadership of any Power’ whatsoever.