JAPAN AND U.S.A.

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 127, 25 November 1940, Page 6

JAPAN AND U.S.A.

TOKIO TALK OF WAR

BLOCKING OF MISSION

NEW YORK, November 23

The Batavia correspondent of the "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" (Tokio) says that Mr. Taneyoshi Yoshimi, proprietor of a Japanese iron-works, giving evidence of anti-Japanese feeling in the East Indies, said that he and his wife were passing a police station when they were dragged from their carriage by the police and beaten and severely injured. '

Admiral Tyozo Nakamura, in an article in the "Kokumin Shimbun," advocating immediate war against the United States, asserted that the United States was the greatest factor in blocking the attainment of Japan's mission in East Asia.

FIGHTER SQUADRON.

Manila reports that a -United States Army pursuit squadron numbering 177 men and officers arrived in almost wartime secrecy. Interviews and photographs were forbidden. This represents the strongest reinforcement to the Philippines since the deterioration of Japanese-American relations.

The United States evacuee liner Washington has arrived at Manila to collect 900 American women and children, mostly the families of United States naval men.

After its six years in the Far East Manila todpy farewelled the flagship Augusta when she sailed for San Francisco for an overhaul, after which she will join the United States battle fleet at Hawaii. The Houston, which relieves the Augusta, arrived from Honolulu on Tuesday.