REPORTED JAP PLAN
ADVICE TO GERMANY & ITALY Rec. 12.50 p.m. LONDON, August 11. At a meeting with Hitler on July 20 General Oshima, Japanese Ambassador in Berlin, proposed that Germany and Italy should continue to defend the Mediterranean as long as possible in order to tie up as much of the British Fleet as they could.
Reporting this, the Berne correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper "Allehanda" adds: "General Oshima proposed a partial evacuation of the Balkans in order to provide sufficient troops and material for this purpose, but that Crete should be strongly held by a suicide garrison which would hold on as long as possible, thereby preventing Turkey joining in with the Allies. General Oshima promised in return that Japan would repay the German and Italian efforts by trying to bring about peace between Russia and Germany."
The correspondent adds. "Japan still believes she can influence Russia because the latter is apprehensive about a possible Japanese attack in the East."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 37, 12 August 1943, Page 5
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