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DUTCH CONCERN

OVER LATEST JAPANESE MOVE

THE AIR LINE TO TIMOR. PHASE OF SOUTHWARD THRUST. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) BATAVIA, October 15. Official comment is not available regarding the agreement for a Japanese air line between Palau and Portuguese Timor, but well-informed circles stress that an air line poorly developed to the Portuguese colony can have no economic advantages. However, the view is held that there is another significance which is quite clear when viewing Timor’s geographical position. The ABCD front is exactly on the dividing line of the Netherlands East Indies and Australia. It is pointed out that the agreement is just another phase of Japan’s southward movement, which should be viewed with the utmost alertness. The question is being asked whether the agreement will necessarily lead to an infringement of the agreement between Portugal and the Netherlands, stipulating that bases of military value in Timor shall never be handed over to a third Power. ON THE DOORSTEP OPINION IN AUSTRALIA. ' BRISBANE, October 15. Commenting on Japan’s agreement with Portugal for a Japanese air service from Palau Island to Dillin, in Portuguest Timor, only 400 miles from the Australian coast, Mr Hudson Fysh, manager of Quantas Empire Airways, said that this brings Japan’s economic front line to Australia’s doorstep.

“Japan in her southward drive has used her mandate of the Caroline Islands as a stepping stone of great significance,” he said. “Palau Island is an important Japanese supply base. Portuguese Timor is ripe for exploitation, and Japan will soon be in a position to obtain a stranglehold on Timor’s commercial life.”

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 5

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267

DUTCH CONCERN Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 5

DUTCH CONCERN Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 5

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