AMERICA DETERMINED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 37, 12 August 1941, Page 7

AMERICA DETERMINED

JAPANESE WARNING TO JAPAN

WASHINGTON READY TO ACT

(Rec. 1 p.m.) TOKIO, August 11. Mr. Kaname Wakasugi, of the Japanese Foreign Service, who is returning to Japan, said in a radio interview from Washington with the "Nichinichi Shimbun": "I think the United States is prepared and determined to meet the worst eventualities. "The speech of the people, the Press, the conduct of industry; everything'is directed towards preparedness. Any person who saw the United States last year cannot possibly imagine the actual America of today because everything is changed. j . "I do not think that Japan is starting anything, but it seems that the

United States programme Is set and ready for action in case Japan moves." The Peking bureau of the Associated Press of America says that the United States Embassy made new representations to the Japanese Embassy about the treatment of Americans in Tsingtao. Besides suffering restrictions on their right to travel, the Americans are not permitted to use taxi-cabs. Americans are also finding it increasingly difficult to purchase necessaries, such as food and coal. The "Hochi Shinibun" says that informed sources at Vladivostok revealed that the United-States had proposed that America and Russia should take concerted defensive measures in the event of a third Power attacking the Netherlands Indies. '