JAPAN KNOWS HOW WAR WILL END.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 9

JAPAN KNOWS HOW WAR WILL END.

BUT IS NOT SAYING

Determined To Keep Out Of Conflict.

ANTI-BRITISH MOVE REJECTED

United Press Association.—Copyright. (Received 11 a.m.) TOKYO, March 22. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Haakiro Arita, said in the Diet that Japan will not put obstacles in Germany's way by joining hands with Britain or America during- the European war.

ffe added that Japan was certain of the war's outcome, but the matter was too delicate to explain further.

Mr. Arita. Mr. Arita rejected the proposal to strengthen the ties of the Home-Berlin Axis to prevent the possibility of British pressure in the Far East after the war. He declared that Japan's policy of non-involvmont in the war was unshakcable. The British Ambassador to Tokyo, Sir Robert Craigic, conferred with Mr. Arita for an hour, says an earlier message. He is believed to have sought an assurance that the Japanese would not enter any combination of Powers which might' impede the Allies' war effort. Mr. Arita is reported to have said that Japan's policy was to avoid being involved in the European war and concentration on ending the war in China.