FORMAL WARNING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1941, Page 5

FORMAL WARNING

TO JAPANESE GOVERNMENT CONVEYED BY AMBASSADORS. BRITAIN & UNITED STATES PREPARED. NEW YORK, August 12. The Tokio correspondent of the “New York Times.” Otto D. Tolischus, says that the Anglo-American stand on the Far Eastern crisis, as expressed in recent statements by the United States Secretary of State. Mr Hull, and the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden, has been formally conveyed to the Japanese Government by the British Ambassador in Tokio, Sir Robert Craigie, and the American Ambassador. Mr Grew, in recent interviews with the Foreign Minister, Vice-Admiral Toyoda.

The result of these steps, as well as of the direct discussions between Mr Hull and the Japanese Ambassador to Washington. Admiral Nomura, is that the Japanese Government, has been officially informed that any action which will threaten the independence of Thailand will be a matter of immediate concern, and that Britain and the United States are prepared to meet any step Japan may take, move for move. As Mr Eden said, any threat against Thailand’s independence threatens the security of Singapore, on which hinges the whole position of both Britain and the United States in the Far East. There is little doubt in Japanese minds today as to what the next step would be. JAPANESE LINER DEPARTURE FROM AUSTRALIA. SYDNEY. August 13. The Minister of Customs, Mr Harrison, stated that he expected the Japanese liner Kasima Marti would be permitted to load goods to the value of those she discharged. He thought it probable the liner would load' 5000 bales of wool at Brisbane. It was purchased before Japanese credits in Australia were frozen. It is expected that the ship will leave on Thursday with a full complement of passengers, mainly Japanese business men returning to their homeland.

OUTLOOK SERIOUS

BUT TIME FOR WISDOM TO PREVAIL.

MR. FRASER'S OPINION.

LONDON, August 12

The situation in the Pacific was certainly serious, but there was still time icr wiser counsels to prevail than that of aggression, said the New Zealand Prime Minister. Mr Fraser, in a broadcast address. “If. despite every effort to maintain peace in the Pacific, the tide of war should reach New Zealand and

Australia I am certain that the daughter Dominions will show the same calm, unflinching courage, the same fortitude and the same deep, unyielding determination which has ennobled the Motherland. “New Zealand will stand shoulder to shoulder with the United Kingdom to the end, whatever may come, ' and that qnd will be victory.” /