MAY BE FRICTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 30, 3 August 1940, Page 12

MAY BE FRICTION

JAPAN AND USA.

RESOURCES IN INDIES

(Received August 3, 2 p.m.)

TOKIO, August 2,

General Koiso, a former Minister of Overseas Affairs, in a statement to the Press, said' that there may be friction between,the United States and Japan over the rubber resources in the Dutch East Indies, which are indispensable to the United States.

"The solution," he said, "depends on Japan's decision. The East Indies have long been oppressed and exploited as Holland's colony, and we will not tolerate this in view of the principles on which we are establishing the new order in East Asia. It is necessary to emancipate the Oriental races and we are destined to solve the problem. .. "Oil, rubber, and tin from the East Indies control the world market. We do not intend to monopolise them, but it is necessary to ensure that they are disposed of impartially." - A Shanghai message states that Mr. Yen Lan-sheng, city editor of the American registered "Sin Wan Pao," who is on the black-list of the Nan- • king puppet Government, has been kidnapped. " .' . : ' Unidentified Chinese gunmen assassinated Charles Metzler, leader of the White Russian Community Committee.