CHINESE COUNSEL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1941, Page 6

CHINESE COUNSEL

HALT IN NEGOTIATIONS URGED BEST TO SMASH JAPAN AT ONCE. OR AT LEAST TO TIGHTEN BLOCKADE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) CHUNGKING, December 1. An Associated Press of America correspondent says several Chinese newspapers have urged the United States to suspend the Washington talks immediately, for the sake of prestige. The tenor of Press comment was that Japan would never turn back and that there could be no peace in the Pacific until Japan was disarmed. The influential “Takung Pao” said the best course would be to smash Japan at once, or at least to tighten the blockade. The correspondent also stated that a Chinese Government spokesman predicted today that action against China, rather than an invasion of. Thailand, would be the Japanese course if the Washington talks failed. He said: “Japan is not ready, nor has she the resources, to invade Thailand.” A Government spokesman, Dr T. F. Tsians, said: “We feel that there now can be no outcome of the Washington talks which would prove fundamentally unacceptable to China.” Dealing with Japan's unreadiness to invade Thailand or elsewhere, he added: “Therefore we do not expect immediately the outbreak of a Pacific war.”

Dr Tsians denied that Germany was making an effort to mediate a SinoJapanese peace through Nanking and said Chungking would “remain indifferent to such an overture if it were made.’’ He said that in the event of a Japanese-American war, China would be able to take a military initiative.

ADVISED TO LEAVE AMERICAN CITIZENS IN THAILAND. (Rceived This Day, 10.45 a.m.) BANGKOK, December 1. An Associated Press of America correspondent states that the American Consulate has again advised Americans living in Thailand to be prepared to leave in the event of an emergency. The Bangkok radio, commenting on foreign reports that a Japanese attack on Thailand could be expected in a few days, asserted that Thailand will never be attacked by Japanese troops. CALL ON AMERICA SIR T. BLAMEY’S VIEW. LONG RUN AND SLOW RUN. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) SINGAPORE, December 1. “The necessity to preserve civilisation is at present so great that if the American Army, Navy and people could immediately throw in their weight it would be the greatest possible factor at this juncture,” said General Sir Thomas Blarney, in an znterview. “My own great faith in the American individual people assures me that they will make their full effort in the long run, but that means a slow run and a costly one.”