JAPAN URGED TO FIGHT

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 109, 1 February 1941, Page 12

JAPAN URGED TO FIGHT

Many German Advisers DIFFICULT INTERNAL PROBLEMS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received January 31. 9.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 31. Sir Victor Sassoon (distinguished English banker who has for many years been associated with India and the Far East) has arrived at San Francisco by the Clipper from Flong Kong'. He said that japan’s internal situation is anything but good, and there is a definite shortage of food, labour, and oil reserves. German advisers are swarming through the country, urging it to war, he added. A message states that the 1 okio Cabinet has submitted to Parliament a sweeping Bill providing the death penalty without appeal foi peacetime espionage. t Cabinet made public a Bill for revisions of the national mobilization law to be submitted to the Diet on Saturday. The revision Bill calls for a wide extension of the scope of State control over materials, industries aud banking. TOKIO, January 30., The House of Peers unanimously passed a supplementary military appropriation Bill of 1,000,000,000 jen which the Diet had already passed. Admiral Ryozo Nakamura, a retired officer, in a speech said that the Dutch East Indies would become an inevitable ground for conflict between the United States and Japan, and that whichever country stepped into the area first would be the victor. It is announced that the Soviet Union has agreed to resume negotiations I’or the conclusion of a commercial agreement with Japan besides undertaking to discuss a permanent Soviet-Japanese fisheries treaty. SHANGHAI SHOOTING Japan’s Regret Expressed I British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 29. Asked in the House of Commons as to the action taken by the Government regarding the attempted assassination oAlr. W. J. Keswick, chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, and for information relating to the occurrence, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, said that at a special meeting of ratepayers in the International Settlement on January 23, Mr. Keswick was shot at and wounded by Mr. Hayashi, chairman of the Japanese Association. The shooting was accompanied by scenes of disorder on the part of Japanese ratepayers. The British Ambassador to Japan, Sir Robert Craigie, made strong representations about the disorderly conduct of the Japanese ratepayers, and pressed for early suitable punishment for Mr. Hayashi. The Japanese Government informed Sir Robert Craigie that Mr. Hayashi was being brought back to Japan for trial. Everything would be done to prevent a recurrence of the incident, which was greatly regretted. Mr. Keswick’s wounds are not serious, and he is expected to leave hospital soon. A cablegram on January 25 stated that a meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council was said to have been called to vote for an increase in taxation to cover the expense of a deficit and that uproar occurred when a Japanese motion was overwhelmingly defeated.