JAPAN'S FOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 115, 17 May 1941, Page 10

JAPAN'S FOOD

ALLEGATION AGAINST BRITAIN

NO MEDIATION IN CHINA

U.S. OR GERMANY

(Rec. 10 a.m.)

TOKIO, May 16,

The "Nichi Nichi Shimbun" charged the British Government with an "inhuman attempt" to disturb Japan's fqodstuffs policy by ordering natives in the west Pacific islands not to sell copra which the Japanese had contracted to purchase at 100 yen per ton.

The "Yomiuri Shimbun" asserts that the trade talks in Java are at the crossroads because the Dutch are showing little sincerity, due to- their belief in an ultimate British victory. The "Yomiuri" says: "Japan expects only economic co-operation, consequently Java should follow the example of

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Thailand and Indo-China and recognise Japan as the leader of the East Asia co-prosperity sphere."

The spokesman of the Information Board, Mr. Ishii, said that the Foreign Minister, Mr. Matsuoka, and the Japanese Minister to Nanking, Mr. Honda, had reached an agreement on policy in China, both being in favour of bolstering up the Nanking Government and also rejecting mediation by a third Power, including the United States and Germany, in relation to hostilities between Japan and China.

The Chungking newspaper "Central News" reports that the Japanese suffered a disastrous defeat in the Hupeh Province, with 10,000 men killed or captured during ten days' fighting. It is claimed that the Japanese were driven back to their bases in north, central, and western Hupeh, from which the offensive began on May 5. —U.P.A.