SEEK JUST PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 8

SEEK JUST PEACE

GERMANS IN CHUNGKING

NO SALVATION FROM x DEMOCRACIES

JAPAN'S MOVE SOUTH

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (•Received November 27, 9 a.m.)

NEW YORK, November 26.

A Shanghai message says it is rumoured that Hitler's personal representative, Herr Stahmere, is en route to the Far East to renew pressure on Tokio for the resumption of a southward thrust.

Simultaneously, Germans in Chungking are reported to have intensified their efforts to persuade General Chiang Kai-shek that the democracies are unable to save the Chungking Government and consequently General Chiang should accept an honourable peace with Japan, subsequently co-operating with Japan in a southward drive aimed at Singapore and the Dutch Indies in an effort to dismember the British Empire.

It is reliably reported that a group of prominent American business men m Shanghai have drafted a message to the State Department urging 200,000,000 dollars credi. to Chungking and immediate other assurances of the utmost American aid in an effort to offset German pressure in Chungking,

' Tokio reports that Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa has been appointed Gover-nor-General of Formosa, replacing Admiral Seizo Kobayashi. Admiral Hasegawa is the first active admiral to be assigned to Formosa since 1918 and consequently commentators are attaching importance to the appointment in connection with Japan's south-

ward policy.