NEXT STAGE OF WAR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1942, Page 4

NEXT STAGE OF WAR

JAPANESE PREPARATIONS COMPLETED ACCORDING TO GENERAL TOJO. BOASTS BY NEW FOREIGN MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 27. Japan has completed all preparations for “the next stage of war,” said the Premier (General Tojo) m an address to the National Service Association at Tokio. He did not elaborate what the next stage would be. He also warned his audience that: “The wai has just begun and the entire nation must brace itself, because it is a total war and will be long.” Japan’s new Foreign Minister, Mr Tani, said that when the Axis concentrated its total power, _ Britain and America would be annihilated ana the “new world order” would be established. “The precarious position of the united Nations,” he said, “explains their attempts to strengthen anti-Japanese bases in Australia and China and io construct a second front. Japan s successive victories have made the Allies concerned and impatient. They have been induced to abandon their original policy of fighting a long war and now plan to take the offensive against Japan as soon as they have built up armaments.” , Mr Tani said Japan’s policy towaids Russia was unchanged, “relations with Russia in the Far Eastern territory being unchanged and tranquil.