BLUNT STATEMENT BY KNOX

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 42, 13 November 1941, Page 7

BLUNT STATEMENT BY KNOX

Tokio Cabinet Called (By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright.) (Received November 12, 8.30 p.tn.) WASHINGTON, November 11. “The United States has been long suffering and patient toward Japan, but the time has come to stand firm. To go further would mean that our liberality and forbearance would be misunderstood,” declared the Secretary of the Navy, Colonel Knox, during a speech on the occasion of the dedication of a new naval air base at Providence, Rhode Island. “Our people must understand, that grave questions are about to be decided,” he said. “It is impossible to over- emphasize or exaggerate die grave dangers now facing the nation. In the Atlantic there is the necessity for extreme measures of self-defence, while the far Pacific poses grim possibilities. The only thing we can be sure of is that the Pacific, no less than the Atlantic, calls for instant readiness.” Japan’s Military Budget.

A special meeting of the Japanese Cabinet has been called for Thursday afternoon. Tokio reports say it will discuss the military Budget. Meanwhile the Japanese army is preparing for three days’ manoeuvres in Formosa, commencing on Friday. The Nanking correspondent of the Tokio “Yomiuri Shimbun” states that the United States and Chungking are collaborating in the defence of the Burma Road, where 200 American military trucks and 30 combat planes, which arrived in Rangoon in the middle of October, are already functioning. The correspondent adds that Chungking has gained Tibet’s participation in the construction of the Szeeh-wan-Sikang-Tibet-Indian supply route. The Kalgan correspondent of the Tokio "Niehl Niehl Shimbun” reports that Russia is strengthening the Red Army in outer Mongolia.