TOTAL WAR?

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5

TOTAL WAR?

DEVELOPMENTS IN JAPAN CAUSING APPREHENSION IN UNITED STATES. * ANTICIPATIONS OF SOUTHWARD THRUST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) WASHINGTON, July 15. Swift developments pointing to an imminent Japanese move southward which took place in the Far East today are causing apprehension in the United States. According to the Japanese news agency, Japan’s national structure is being geared to total war “in the execution of important national policies which were recently decided at the Imperial conference.” Large-scale preparations for that purpose are now apparent from an intensified drive which is happening in all Government quarters. The Japanese Government has announced that it expects the people to put their daily lives on a complete war footing, says the Tokio correspondent of the “New York Times.” Additional emergency measures affecting industry, agriculture, transportation and consumption will be announced shortly. The correspondent adds that new restrictions on communications indicate the extent of Japan’s preparations. Communication by telegraph and telephone internally has been restricted to the Japanese language, and in the radiophone and radio-telegraph services to Europe to Japanese and German. English may be used only on the overseas cable services. JAPAN & RUSSIA PACT STILL STANDS. BUT FUTURE UNCERTAIN. TOKIO. July 15. A Government spokesman replying to a question on the .Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact, said that the pact still stood, but he was “unable to comment on the future.” He added that the Moscow Embassy had been advised of the establishment of minefields in many zones of the Russian Pacific coast, presumably on the grounds of the possibility of the appearance of German., warcraft. However, the Japanese were unable to imagine German warcraft being in these waters and in any case the mine measures were not very pleasant to Japan.