WORKING FOR WAR

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 17, 14 October 1933, Page 7

WORKING FOR WAR

Charge Against Japan

PROFESSOR’S OPINION

Menace to Pacific Lands

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received October 13, 7.15 p.m.)

London, October 12. “Japan wants war. She covets Australia. Her idea is, first Manchukuo, next China, India and Australia, including New Zealand, and then Russia. It will come sooner than expected.” So says Professor Taid O’Conory, formerly of Keio University, in his book, “The Menace of Japan.” Professor O’Conory, who served in the British Army, spent many years in Japan and married into an aristocratic Japanese family. He has described Japanese men as ruthless, lustful and treacherous. He adds that they will slowly carry on their plans, first to subjugate the East, unless the Powers step in. Japan, he says, is working at top speed toward war and will soon march on China.

NO WARLIKE INTENT

Empire’s Singapore Base

(Received October 13, 7.15 p.m.)

Singapore, October 12. “Talk of that kind' can only be characterised as nonsense,” declared Captain Euan Wallace, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, when interviewed in Singapore concerning a recent article by Rear-Admiral Inji in a Japanese newspaper alleging that the Singapore Base is merely preparation for war with Japan. “The completion of the work is an obligation of honour to the units of the Empire, which have contributed large sums of money to its construction,” ne said. Captain Wallace to-morrow will inspect the base, which is making excellent progress and will be completed well within the contract time.

BRITAIN AT LIMIT

One-sided Disarmament

(Received October 13, 7.15 p.m.)

London, October 13.

Mr. Stanley Baldwin, in a broadcast, said: “We have cut down our armaments to the utmost limits compatible with national security. We can go no further on the road of one-sided disarmament because the security of the Empire is one of the great bulwarks of the world peace to-day.”