IN THE EAST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 234, 3 October 1934, Page 7

IN THE EAST.

DANGEROUS ENEMY.

American General Urges 'Planes To Attack Japan.

RUSSIA'S AIR STRENGTH.

(United T.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, October 2. Brigadier-General William Mitchell, retired, giving evidence before President Roosevelt's Aviation Commission to-day, said: "Our most dangerous enemy is Japan and our aeroplanes should be designed to attack Japan."

Hβ stated that 50 dirigibles could destroy Japan within two days if war broke out with the United States.

"The United States should develop 'planes with a cruising range of from 0000 to 8000 miles," lie declared. He added that Russia possessed 'planes with a radius of 3500 miles, which could be used either against Japan or Western Europe.

SECOND GERMANY?

Official Japanese Pamphlet

Looks Ahead.

WORLD SITUATION REVIEWED. (Received 12.50 p.m.) TOKYO, October 2. The War Ministry has officially issued a lengthy pamphlet entitled, "The Real Meaning of National Defence, and its Strengthening," of which 100,000 copies have been distributed in the army and also to prominent organisations and individuals throughout the nation.

The pamphlet says, inter alia: "Conflict is the father of creation, and the mother of civilisation and national defence is the fundamental function of a nation's development."

Referring to the possibility of failure of the Naval Conference next year, it predicts that Britain and America will blame Japan for such an outcome, and Chinese militarists will take advantage of the situation and try to recover Manchuria, precipitating a grave crisis similar to that of a few years ago on which the Empire's destiny would depend.

The publication also refers to the world-wide anti-Japanese trade restrictions and asks: Who is sure that Japan will not become a second Germany?