DANGEROUS, ASSERTS TOKIO PAPER

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 121, 15 February 1941, Page 12

DANGEROUS, ASSERTS TOKIO PAPER

Collaboration For Defence Of South Pacific

TOKIO, February 13. Tlie military organ “Yomiuri Shimbun" declared: —

“If President Roosevelt's denial of danger of war in the Pacific is based on the completion of a system of full collaboration between the United States, Australia, ami Britain for tlie defence of the South Pacific against Japan, then

there is nothing so dangerous.

The paper asserted that the United States sent a naval observer to Australia and was reported to he planning to send observers to Auckland. Singapore, and Cape Town. "This places the waters eastward of Suez under the control of the United States,” it claimed. The Dome! news agency reports that the Australian Minister. Sir John Latham, had a lung conference with the Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, on “the general situation between Japan and Australia.”