The Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1944. JAPAN READY FOR HUNDRED YEARS WAR

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13429, 17 April 1944, Page 2

The Bay of Plenty Times MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1944. JAPAN READY FOR HUNDRED YEARS WAR

The Japanese are quite a peculiar people; they are good mimics, but they are unable to recognise realities. Realities do not appear to have any meaning for them. They copy from other nations what pleases them without knowing' the ins and outs of what they are copying. The Japanese army and navy are copies. The army is a copy of the German army and the navy is a copy of the British navy. The Japanese, however, is wanting in common honesty, but an adept in monkey tricks. As a trader he is not to be compared with the Chinese trader. The latter likes a square deal, and those who have had dealings with Chinese and Japanese traders in their respective countries know that the Japanese is always working a swindle. In japan, as in China, tourists and visitors to the countries invariably purchase silk. The Chinese would show the purchaser a piece of silk and name the price per yard. Asked for better quality he would produce it and name the prices, but a Japanese, when asked to show better quality of silk, would present the same quality as the rejected piece and quote a higher price. He is really untrustworthy and that is shown in the fact that he joined up with the Germans to fight the British and Americans. The British helped the Japanese after the last war to secure the mandated islands in the Pacific, the Caroline and Marshall Islands, which were originally under German control.

Now the Japanese are paying the price of perfidy. The British and Americans who were to be driven out of the Par East, refuse to be rooted out. Cm the contrary, the Allies are determined to root the Japanese out of all the territories they have occupied and confine them in their island home.

The Japanese are credited with being good soldiers, and no doubt'they are, since they face death fearlessly, but all this does not prevent them from being kicked from pillar to post. The Allies in the south and south-west Pacific have got the Japanese on the. run, and each day sees Japan's power of resistance weakened. They have lost the initiative in all theatres of the war, and they have not the slightest chance of regaining it. They are very weak in aeroplanes and their airmen are of poor calibre. The Japanese navy is in hiding, and dare not come into the open sea. Japan's shipping resources have been reduced to dangerous limits. The Japanese know that their war machine has broken down, and so it is reported that Tokio is to be evacuated and the seat of Government is to be moved to Manchuria where the Emperor is also to reside. This is not pleasant reading for the civil population of Japan, and so the authorities state that Japan is preparing for a hundred years war. Hitler is nearing the end of his .tether, and when he goes Japan will find herself without any more support, and no one to copy from.