ANGER & DEFIANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1941, Page 5

ANGER & DEFIANCE

GENERAL TOJO’S TALK PROVOCATIVE & RIDICULOUS ACCUSATIONS. AMERICAN PATIENCE RUNNING OUT. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, November 29. The Japanese reply to the Note from the American Secretary of State, Mr Hull, expresses dissatisfaction on important points and optimism is sharply declining regarding the Washington talks, says the Tokio correspondent of the British United Press. The Japanese Prime Minister, General Tojo, in a statement on the anniversary of the Japan-Manchukuo declaration of a new order in East Asia, asserted that Anglo-American exploitation of the Asiatic peoples must be “purged with a vengeance.” He said that the Chinese leader, General Chiang Kai-shek, was dancing to the tune of the Anglo-American Communism because Britain and the United States desired to throw the Asiatic peoples against each other. “This is the stock-in-trade of Britain and the United States and therefore we must purge this sort of action with a vengeance,” he said. It is authoritatively stated that the patience of the United States Government with Japan is nearing exhaustion and that another Japanese military move, whether in Thailand or elsewhere in the south, would be regarded as a Japanese attempt to dominate the whole Pacific area, says the Washing-, ton correspondent of the “New York Times.” The United States Government would not tolerate this, he says. While the negotiations have not collapsed the United States is deeply con-.

cerned over the possibility of the Philippines being encircled by Japan and rubber and tin and other essential defence supplies being cut off by further Japanese aggression.