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Evening Star, Issue 24047, 20 November 1941, Page 14

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U.S.A; AND JAPAN. LONDON, November 19.—America's plnns for naval co-operation with Britain, in the Pacific are now believed to be complete and ready for “ prcss-tlic-button ” .application, says the ‘ Daily Express ’ foreign editor in a message from Washington. If the Japanese warlords insist on a showdown Japan will find herself facing a Longrange blockade. The main body of the United States Pacific fleet would remain outside Japanese waters while submarines, bombers, and light cruisers would harry the Japanese naval supply lines to China and Indo-China. He adds that when Mr Kurusu and Admiral Nomura retired after the lou’gest and most hard-hitting conference in the history of the State Department they took with them a stern American warning that a single further step by the Japanese warlords might bring down the Japanese Empire under the weight of the strongest coalition of military power the Far East had over known. American opinion attributes Tokio’s ferocity to an Oriental desire to put up a good bargaining counter. Indian pad a Chutists. NEW DELHI, November 19. Many Indian and Gurkha troops are being trained as parachutists. The selecting and training of native paratroops have been going on for several months. Parachutes for the force will be' made in a specially built factory in India. REHABILITATION. In a statement opening at Wellington the national conference of patriotic bodies, the Hon. W. Parry said that rehabilitation' in its accepted sense of reinstatement of the men and women of the fighting services into civil life fell within the province of the Government and would not bo passed on to the patriotic organisations.