SECOND TANKER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 5

SECOND TANKER

WITH AMERICAN PETROL FOR RUSSIA ARRIVAL AT VLADIVOSTOK. RENEWED JAPANESE PROTEST. ißv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright i NEW YORK. September 6. A second American tanker with petrol for Russia has arrived at Vladivostok. Japan has renewed her protests to the United States and to Russia against such shipments. NO REAL PROGRESS MADE TOWARDS PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT. IN WASHINGTON DISCUSSIONS. NEW YORK, September G. Speaking at his Press conference in Washington the Secretary of States, Mr Hull, admitted that no' real progress had been made toward a peaceful settlement in the discussions between the United States and Japan. The Japanese Government has kept the nation in the dark on the negotiations with America while preparing the country for war if they fail, says the Tokio correspondent of the New York “Herald-Tribune." Japan cannot afford protracted negotiations with America, he says, but it is impossible to say where she will finally stand. General Teiuchi Suzuki. Chief of the Japanese Planning Board, announced in Tokio new measures designed to “make the nation ready to face war." These constitute full war time organisation of land, sea and air transportation. Japanese officials hint that nationwide compulsory air training for college students will soon be introduced. The Washington correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune," says that Japan is not likely to attempt a southern move in the event of war with the United States as an American blockade would almost certainly strangle the Japanese Empire. Naval authorities, he says, do not expect that war with Japan would bring a decisive naval engagement. Japan could not replace any vessels sunk because of lack of materials. On the other hand the United States could risk losses. They, therefore do not expect a sea attack on Singapore. A land assault from Thailand would be more likely. All American missionaries have withdrawn from Japan following the tension, thus leaving Japan without American missions for the first time since 1869. The political commentator of the “Yomiuri Shimbun.” Tokio. Mr Tadashi Saito, asserts that Japan may be compelled to seek durable peace in East Asia "through victory" unless the United States reconsiders and alters her policies toward Tokio. The “Kokumin Shimbun” demands that the Prime Minister, Prince Kcnoye, should immediately elucidate the basis of his message to President Roosevelt, saying: “While the message undoubtedly seeks to remove the cancer troubling Japanese relations with America, there must be no surrender to the United States in any degree.”