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BETWEEN THAILAND POLICY & PRACTICE EFFECTED BY JAPANESE PRESSURE. CREDITS & RECOGNITION OF MANCHUKUO. LONDON, August 5. ■ Japanese pressure has succeeded in effecting a small breach between Thailand’s avowed policy and actual practice, says Reuter’s Bangkok correspondent. Whether the breach will be speedily widened depends on whether America appreciates the urgent need to help . Thailand to avert ultimate tragedy. Willingly or not, Thai bankers have accommodated the Yokohama Specie Bank to enable Japan to face the American freezing order. The Japanese Press hails the bank credit and the recognition of Manchukuo as signifying Thailand's willing entry into the new order. The publication of a telegram from the Premier of Thailand, Lunag Bipul Songfiram, to the Premier of Manchukuo officially confirms Thailand’s recognition of Manchukuo. There is no confirmation in London of a Saigon report that a large, wellequipped Chinese detachment has arrived at the Burmese frontier and is prepared to cross immediately to join the British in preventing the Japanese from cutting the Burma Road. A Chinese spokesman in London said he had not been informed of such a concentration but it would be the logical development of China’s determination to aid any action against the Japanese.
TROOPS & TANKS ' MASSING ON THAILAND BORDER. CONSTRUCTION OF SOMBER AERODROMES. (Received This Day. 5.30 a.m.) SHANGHAI, August 6. Military intelligence reports state that 10,000 of the 40.000 Japanese troops in Southern Indo-China are at present garrisoning the Thailand border. Most of them are young troops, intermixed with China veterans. They are equipped with some tanks and light artillery. They have also begun the construction'of bomber aerodromes. Fifty transports are bringing supplies and equipment. It will require two to three weeks for the Japanese to consolidate their positions. TALK IN JAPAN EXAMPLES OF WARMONGERING PROPAGANDA. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, August 6. A Navy spokesman, Commander Hidio Hiraide, writing in a magazine, stated that Japan was on the verge of entering the “world upheaval,’’ because Russia was faced with an internal revolution and he predicted that the United States would ask for bases in Eastern Russia. Another naval authority, Lieutenant-
Commander Tota Ishimaru, writing in the “Hochi Shimbun,” charged Britain and America with using Russia to complete the encirclement of Japan.
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