THE EAST INDIES

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 110, 3 February 1941, Page 7

THE EAST INDIES

Hands Off Warning To Japan NEW ORDER POLICY (British Official Wireless.) (Received February .2, 7 p.m.) RUGBY, February 1. It is announced in London that the Netherlands Minister in Tokio, General Pabst, has been instructed to deliver a message to the Japanese Government to the effect that whatever may have been the real meaning of the words used by the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, in a speech in the Diet in January with reference to the Netherlands East Indies, the Netherlands Government will reject any suggestion of having the East Indies incorporated in a new order in East Asia under the leadership of any Power whatsoever. At the same time, General Pabst stated, his Government can never be expected either to let its actions be guided by the spirit of such a conception of a new order in the Far East or to acquiesce in the consequences of its eventual application.’ In the course of the speech referred to Mr. Matsuoka, according to agency reports, said: “The Netherlands East Indies and French Indo-China, if only for geographical reasons, should be in intimate and inseparable relationship with our country.”