"RIDICULOUS TALK"
JAPAN AND AMERICA
a visitor's Opinion
"It is just as ridiculous to talk of Japan attacking New Zealand or Australia as to continue the foolish talk which comes up at times in the American Press that Japan may attack America. She cannot do it." This reply was offered by an American, Mr. F. W. MacKay, of New York, who is visiting Christchurch, to warnings which have at times been made against Japan's possible intentions in the Pacific (states the "Press"). "Before Japan can attack New Zealand or Austrlia, she has to get by the British line at Singapore, and the American line at Pearl Harbour," Mr. MacKay argued. "To attack successfully and make a sure thing of her aggression, Japan must plant about 1,000,000 troops here. She then needs, in supplies and equipment, about six tons for each man for two months, which means 6,000,000 tons. Japan could land scarcely 200,000 men with the shipping she has at her command." To move an army to New Zealand was beyond Japan's powers, Mr. MacKay added. It was one thing to move men to China; but altogether another to move them to New Zealand. Besides, she would have to consider what Britain and America were doing. "As for aeroplanes coming from Japan and bombing the country, that is something of the future. It has not developed as yet," he said.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 88, 11 October 1937, Page 10
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