BOASTFUL TONE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 January 1943, Page 4

BOASTFUL TONE

TAKEN BY JAPANESE PREMIER REGARDING PACIFIC WAR. SOME REMARKABLE CLAIMS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copy right) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) TOKIO, January 28. “Japan's attitude towards Australia is similar to her attitude towards Chungking,” the Japanese Premier, General Tojo, told the Diet in Tokio today. “ll is unavoidable, but we must inflict severe blows on Australia, so long as she is an ally of the United States and Britain.” Earlier in his speech General Tojo said that the object of the war for a Greater East Asia was to stabilise that area. In the first year of the war Japan had consolidated her foothold. Powerful bases, won at suitable strategic points, were being strengthened day by day and would be used both for offensive and defensive purposes. Tn Malaya, Sumatra, Java, Celebes and other places, peace has been completely restored,” declared General Tojo. “ ‘Burma for the Burmese’ is being constructed. This effort has so impressed our Government that it intends to recognise co-operation by the Philippines in building a Greater- East Asia co-prosperity sphere which indicates that the Filipinos will consummate, at the earliest opportunity, the promised independence of their land. Now that the Republic of China has entered the war as an active participant, Chungking becomes an enemy to the entire Chinese people. Japan j will continue to deal telling blows to that regime.”