DEAL PROPOSED
JAPAN AND EUROPEAN AXIS
DEFENCE OF MEDITERRANEAN.
IN RETURN FOR OVERTURES TO RUSSIA.
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, August 11.
At a meeting with Hitler on July 20, the Japanese Ambassador to Germany (Admiral Oshima) proposed that Germany and Italy should continue to defend the Mediterranean as long as possible, in order to tie up as much of the British Fleet as they could. Reporting this, the Berne correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper “Allehanda” adds that Admiral Oshima proposed the partial evacuation of the Balkans in order to provide sufficient troops and material for this purpose, but urged that Crete should be strongly held by a suicide garrison, which would hold on as long as possible, thereby preventing Turkey going in with the Allies. Admiral Oshima promised that in return Japan would repay the German and Italian efforts by trying-to bring about peace between Russia and Germany. The correspondent adds: "Japan still believes that she can influence Russia, because the latter is apprehensive about a possible Japanese attack in the east.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1943, Page 4
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