ARMY & NAVY SPLIT

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 58, 6 September 1945, Page 7

ARMY & NAVY SPLIT

ISSUE OF WAR WITH RUSSIA

NEW YORK, September 4. A split between the army and navy probably kept the Japanese from going to war with Russia, which Germany had hoped for, said the German Ambassador to Japan, Heinrich Sthamer, in an interview with the Tokio correspondent of the "New York Times." The Japanese army wanted to, but the navy opposed the move, so instead they attacked the United States, Sthamer said. The Germans did not know till a day or two after the events what the Japanese were going to do. Sthamer said he was never instructed to prepare for the arrival of Hitler or any other German when Germany collapsed. The correspondent says that he found 50 Italian, German, Siamese, and IndoChinese diplomats living in a luxury hotel at Mizanoshita, 22 miles from Fujiyama. There were fountains filled with schools of trained goldfish two feet long, and suites containing exquisite lacquered cabinets and supplies of local delicacies.