JAPANESE WAR PLAN
DOCUMENTS IN U.S.A.
(Rec. noon) WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. A file of secret Japanese documents revealing Japan's war plan is in the United .States, says the North American Newspaper Alliance. Kilsoo Haan, .anti-Japanese Korean patriot, clandestinely got the documents from the possession of a high officer of the Japanese Black Dragon Society in a Los Angeles hotel last year. The documents forecast in detail Japan's feigned peace negotiations while she prepared to attack Hawaii. The documents predict three stages in the Pacific war: Firstly, the occupation of the Philippines, Guam, Wake, and Midway Islands, Hong Kong, Borneo, and Malaya in four months; secondly, occupation "for Japan's protection" of the Netherlands East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Burma, and India, and seizure of all Pacific islands as strategic positions for assaulting the United States; t thirdly, simultaneous invasion of the Panama Canal Zone, Alaska, California, Oregon, and the State of Washington. The documents declare that America will ask for peace after the fall of Hawaii and all the other Pacific territories.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1942, Page 6
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171JAPANESE WAR PLAN Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1942, Page 6
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