COMMUNIST ADVANCE

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 14

COMMUNIST ADVANCE

WILL UNITED STATES ACT? POSSIBLE MOVEMENTS IN EAST A New York resident who served in the American Army in the last war writes to relatives in New Zealand as follows: “We are fortifying and putting plenty of troops into the Pacific. The fleet has been added to. . . . More than 165 decommissioned destroyers have been put back into service. . . . Army and navy recruiting is going on diligently. The Panama Canal zone is being fully garrisoned, and more precautions are being manifested with regard to movements of shipping, while the actions of aliens are being carefully watched. Administration Pro-Ally “The Administration is pro-Ally. After all, we cannot afford to see England licked. . . . The English speak our language. The HitlerStalin pact is a bad one for Germany. It opened the doors of Europe to the Asiatics—something that tile German leaders have been warned about for years. The net result of the German push eastwards was that these Russian hordes stopped Hitler in Poland and chewed off a piece for themselves then Turned towards the Balkan States, which have always been supposed to be in Italy’s domain. Now Stalin is monkeying in the Scandinavian countries, a domain that Germany has always wanted to have diplomatic and economic sway over because of her interests in the Baltic.

“Here’s how the thing shapes up now, and you’re going to get a shock when you hear it. Holland has vast interests out your way. She may be violated by a German advance against the Western Front. That is being anticipated. The Japanese made a pact with the Axis, then ordered millions of dollars’ worth of heavy machinery from Germany for the rehabilitation of their industrial and munition plants. It was to be on a barter basis. Then Hitler ran out on ihem, and joined up with Russia. This left the Japanese out on a limb. While at present there is some sort of truce on the Manchurian, fighting front, it will not stick, because Japan now claims that Russia is still sending supplies to the Chinese. Japan has had very heavy losses in men in China. Japan Seeks Help “Now Japan is looking to us for help. The Japanese won’t trust Russia or Germany again, and France and Erfgland are too busy to help them. It is to us that they must look for money and raw materials as well as heavy machinery and steel. Maybe we will be helping them to lick the Russians, meanwhile fixing a truce with the Chinese. The Netherlands would also be in such an alliance. Russia will go to war with Germany yet, so there must be an Eastern front. Can Japan, China, and the United States create such a front? The issue would be—stop the plague of the Reds over Europe and into the Balkans. . . . Some of the diplomatic moves appear to be tending toward this kind of combination. Why are we so busy in the Pacific? Everything in this country is moving across the country to the Pacific at present.

“This is a funny war so far. Like politics, it may make strange bedfellows, like the Nazi-Communist pact. The Japanese are hard put to it. They need a friend. Would it surprise you to see the American Fleet take over with the Dutch, the Singapore Naval Base and French Indo-China defences, as part of a naval blockade against Russia and Germany? It is all within the realm of possibility.”

Northern Territory, he took his bearings with a compass and roughly calculated distances by timing nis journeys with a watch. He compiled a map of the area from the data so gathered. Mr Sweeney found as he proceeded inland from the coast that the quality of the country progressively deteriorated until the sandstone ridges were reached.