THREAT TO RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1941, Page 6

THREAT TO RUSSIA

SEEN BY THE CHINESE

MOVE AGAINST THAILAND REGARDED AS FEINT.

INSOLENT WARNINGS GIVEN BY TOKIO PRESS.

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 18. The Chinese are convinced that the threat of a Japanese move against Thailand is intended to preoccupy A.B.C.D, Powers while Japan prepares for an attack on Russia at Vladivostock, according io “The Times” Hong Kong correspondent The “Daily Mail’s” Shanghai

representative quotes Tokio re-

ports that the greatest assembly of transport ever seen is gathering, it is reported for Korea and Dairen. A warning that if Russian and Japanese relations get worse, the Kremlin alone will be responsible is given by the Tokio newspaper, “Hochi Shimbun.” It adds that Japan cannot remain indifferent to reports that Moscow has agreed to pool ’war materials with the anti-Axis Powers, because Russia is aware that Japan’s efforts to settle the China affair are being delayed by British and American obstruction.

The “Nichi Niehl Shimbun” warns the Soviet to reject the Moscow ThreePower Conference, which would mean a further encirclement of Japan. . According to the Associated Press of America Shanghai correspondent, Japanese sources intimated that the Nanking regime intends to oust British and United States Consular officials from Japanese-occupied China, on the ground that they have failed to recognise Viang Ching-Wei. A Dome! News Agency correspondent at Singapore says all Japanese and other aliens within a fifteen-mile radius of the Singapore Naval Base have been ordered to leave the area within a fortnight. The Japanese include residents and officers and concerns holding vast rubber tracts. They are appealing against the decision. It is officially announced in Cairo that large quantities of Egyptian cotton, ready for shipment to Japan, will not go forward, following the cancellation of all navicerts for cargoes from Egypt to Japan. ■

SIBERIAN ARMY

FULLY MOBILISED

(Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) NEW YORK. August 18.

The Associated Press of America’s Tokio correspondent says there are reliable indications that the Russian Far Eastern Army strength has been been fully mobilised and stationed on the Siberian border.

The Domei News Agency has reported. that Japanese assistance to IndoChina might be increased because of the tightening encirclement of the Japanese sphere by Britain and the United States.