JAPAN & RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1942, Page 4

JAPAN & RUSSIA

“NO CHANGE IN RELATIONS” ACCORDING TO TOJO SCORN POURED ON ALLIED “INTRIGUES.” FIGURES OF WAR CASUALTIES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, May 27. Making a speech on relations between Russia and Japan the Japanese Prime Minister (General Tojo) said these had not changed since the outbreak of war in Greater East Asia. The Russians had recently reaffirmed their intention to regulate relations • with Japan by the Neutrality Pact. “With the progress of the war, enemy countries will presumably intensify their insidious manoeuvres to alienate Russia from Japan,” General Tojo observed. “There is, however, no chance of such an intrigue bearing fruit as long as Russia maintains her attitude.- Japan harbours no hostility towards India’s, millions and hopes and expects that Indian leaders will seize a golden opportunity to march towards the realisation of the principle of India for the Indians and rise courageously to win India’s emancipation.” General Tojo announced that Japanese casualties since the outbreak of war to April 30 totalled 9,000 officers and men killed and 20,000 wounded. The Berlin radio, quoting Tokio, claimed that the Japanese in the, Chindwin Valley had reached Humalin. The same radio said Japanese reconnaissance planes had sighted a United States fleet east of Samoa, comprising several cruisers and destroyers and two aircraft carriers, which made off eastward when sighted.