JAPANESE AIMS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 5

JAPANESE AIMS

MORE TALK ABOUT NEW ORDER ADMISSION OF SUPREME EMERGENCY. THAILAND TO RESIST AGGRESSION. ißv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 15. The “New York Times’’ Tokio correspondent, Mr Otto Tolisehus, says that the Foreign Minister, Vice-Admiral Toyoda, speaking at the ninth anniversary of .Japan’s recognition of Manchukuo, reiterated Japan’s firm determination to establish a new order in oast Asia. The Minister pointed to Manchukuo as an example of what the new order meant. Nevertheless, he stressed that Japan was confronted with a super emergency unprecedented in the annals of her history. The Bangkok correspondent of the London “Times” says that President Roosevelt’s stern final warning to the Axis has aroused the approbation of the Thailanders, who feel that the definite assertion that the British and American navies would protect the Pacific has resulted in a relaxation of the tension in that part of the world. The Japanese Press has significantly reduced its propaganda about Thailand. Reaffirming its desire to maintain peace and determination to resist aggression to the last man, the Thai Government has published a War Time Duty Act requiring Thailanders to utilise every means to resist attack. Violations of the Act are punishable by death or life imprisonment. .. MR DUFF COOPER’S WARNING. .. Mr Duff Cooper, British Minister of State, broadcast from Singapore a so-, ber and guarded warning to Japan. Japan, he said, was today an isolated Power facing overwhelming superiority in the Pacific. It seemed, therefore, hardly believable that the one Axis Power in the Pacific world would deliberately bring down on its head the concentrated wrath and fury of all the Allied Powers that stood firmly united on the other side of the world. The Pacific world, Mr Duff Cooper said, might well play a greater part in human affairs than the world of the Atlantic.

HOSTILITIES IN PACIFIC ANTICIPATED BY AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT. SYDNEY, September 16. The “New York Times” -Far East correspondent, Mr Hallett Abend, who is visiting Australia, is convinced that hostilities in the Pacific will break out sooner or later. He also believes that America will come fully into the war. Tension in the Pacific, he said, had immobilised vast forces. One had only to reflect what a difference 3000 planes and 300,000 men would have made in Greece if they had not been immobilised at Singapore and in the Netherlands East Indies areas. Mr Abend said he saw. no reason to feel hopeful about the outcome of the United States-Japanese talks. The position of 'these two nations was so hopelessly opposed that it would be next to impossible to find a basis for agreement. ' He added that Japan would never agree to remove her troops from China. Her armies would never obey an Imperial order to evacuate China and give up the fruits of four years of war. There was no work for them back in Japan, and “where they are, they live on loot.”

SAILING FOR SYDNEY RUSSIAN SHIPS IN FAR EAST. LONDON, September 15. The Rome radio stated that Russian ships anchored at Bangkok, Hong Kong, and the Philippines, have been ordered to sail to Sydney. NAZI BOAST DEFEAT OF RUSSIA IN A FEW WEEKS. TOKIO, September 15. Colonel Alfred Kretschmer, German military attache, addressing a Japanese patriotic organisation, said that Germany would defeat Russia in a few weeks, and turn her energies to capture Britain. '