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JAPANESE ADMIRAL’S HOPE MOBILISATION OF WHITE RUSSIANS. TRAINING IN NORTH CHINA. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, October 17. The Tokio “Niehl Nichi Shimbun” quotes Admiral Sakichi Takahashi as saying: “I admit that in numbers at present and in the future the Japanese Navy will be unable to match a certain country's Navy (obviously the United States). However, our Navy has been training to overcome that superiority. No longer is it a question of numbers but of morale and technique, because of which the Japanese people may rest assured.”
The Japanese army is mobilising all able-bodied White Russians aged between 17 -and 40 years throughout North China for six months’ military training, says the Peking correspondent of the Associated Press. Presumably they are to serve in the expected Soviet-Japanese war. Asked whether they were willing to fight against the Soviet, Peking White Russians declared: “At present we have no choice but to obey orders backed by Japanese bayonets, but they ' will never get us to fight against our brothers in Russia." The situation in the Far East was responsible for a sudden meeting of the Canadian Cabinet at Ottawa yesterday.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1941, Page 5
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