WAR IN THE PACIFIC

Evening Star, Issue 23811, 15 February 1941, Page 11

WAR IN THE PACIFIC

JAPANESE COMMENT ON POSSIBILITY VEILED WARNING TO AMERICA NO IMMEDIATE DANGER OF OUTBREAK Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 14. According to a message from Tokio, the military organ ‘ Yominri ’ declared: “If President Roosevelt’s denial of danger of the war in the Pacific is based on completion of a system of full collaboration between the United States and Australia and Britain for the defence of the South Pacific against Japan, then there’s nothing so dangerous.” The paper asserted tjiat the United States sent a naval observer to Australia, and was reported to be planning to send observers to Auckland, Singapore, and Cape Town. This places the waters eastward of the Suez under the control of the United States.

The spokesman of the Cabinet Information Bureau, commenting on Mr Fadden’s reported warning of the grave danger of war spreading to Australia, said: “ We don’t see the imminence of war in the Pacific, in which sense we agree with Mr Roosevelt's comment of a few days ago.”

The Moscow correspondent of the Dornei Agency said the Diplomatic Corps is attaching importance to expected talks between Mr Oshima, who arrived on Thursday on a two-day visit, en route to Berlin, and Mr Tatekawa, with regard to Japanese, Soviet, and German relations, and the Far Eastern and European situations.