OVER LAST NAZI MOVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1941, Page 6

OVER LAST NAZI MOVE

Japan Facing More Serious Situation PEOPLE OF GERMANY DUMBFOUNDED TALES OF FRIENDSHIP WITH SOVIET BELIEVED (By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) TOK 10, .lune 23. The “Asahi Shimbun’’ says the reasons for Germany’s attack are not clear, but in any case, Japan is facing a more serious situation. The paper’s Berlin correspondent reports that Germany’s attack on Russia has utterly dumbfounded the German people, who believed German Press assertions of the imminence of still greater friendship and co-operation with the Soviet. Bluntly stating that the Russian-German hostilities make it virtually impossible to keep the European war from spreadingthroughout the world, the “Nichi Nichi Shimbun’’ advocates a firm foreign policy for Japan, with full cognisance of the important effects of the situation on East Asia. The Prime Minister (Prince Konoye) and Mr Wang ChingWei (head of the Nanking puppet Government), in a joint statement, pledged themselves to collaborate in eradicating the evils of Communist aggression in establishing a new order in East Asia. A report from Shanghai states that the steamer Asama Maru is making an emergency trip to Batavia to evacuate Japanese women and children and German nationals to Japan.