WILD CHARGES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1941, Page 6

WILD CHARGES

MADE BY JAPANESE NEWS AGENCY AGAINST UNITED STATES. CRAFTY DOUBLE-DEALING ALLEGED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) TOKIO, October 15. “No further protraction of the Japanese-American negotiations is permissable so long as the United States continues its double-dealing —assuming a hostile attitude on one hand and conducting diplomatic negotiations on the other,” declares the Domei .News Agency. Fifty days, it adds, have elapsed since Prince Konoye’s peace message was delivered to President Roosevelt and the results are still beyond conjecture. All this time, the United States has been assuming leadership . and strengthening the A.B.C.D. encirclement of Japan and aiding Chiang Kaishek. “It is doubtful,” the agency adds, “whether the United States is seriously endeavouring to maintain peace in the Pacific. Japan is in danger of being caught in a trap by crafty America.” The United Press Tokio correspondent says the Fascist Tohokai Party has demanded that the Government eliminate the negotiations with the United States.

ARMING OF SHIPS AMERICAN NAVY READY TO ACT. NO INTERRUPTION OF ROUTE TO VLADIVOSTOK. (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 14. The United States Navy is ready to put guns and gun crews on merchantmen as fast as the ships come to us and as soon as Congress authorises such action,” said Colonel Knox (Secretary to the Navy) at a Press conference. He added that plans were under way for a Navy censorship of outgoing overseas communications, to prevent a leakage of military, naval and economic information to the enemy or unfriendly Powers. He said the Navy was keeping the Greenland region under surveillance. The captured German radio group was well equipped and had provisions sufficient for at least one winter in Greenland. Revealing that there had been no interruption of the movement of American oil to Vladivostok, Colonel Knox said the Japanese Navy had long been regarded by America as more moderate than the Army and perhaps less provincial, because it saw more of the .world and of what other nations were 'doing. /