ARAKI THE AUTOCRAT

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 4033, 16 September 1933, Page 5

ARAKI THE AUTOCRAT

On Japan s Aspirations COUNTRY FACES CRISIS AT HOME AND ABROAD VIRTUALLY ISOLATED BY OTHER NATIONS VERY SUSPICIOUS FRONTIER FORCES MENACE OF RUSSIA By Telegraph—Press Assn —Copyright (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Kobe, September 15 General Ai akb Minister ot \\ ar, addressing, a meeting ol the War Council isuid : “Japan faces a crisis at home and abroad. Our withdrawal from the League of Nations reduces us to Virtual isolation and that withdrawal, synchronising with tne forthcoming AYaj&hington Conference, increases our dangers. China is nursing a grudge. She is at present submissive', but is awaiting her opportunity. Meanwhile, the China-American friendship i £ increasing alarmingly. American influence is securing communications and aviaton rights. The Soviet is menacing and is increasing its border forces, concentrating 300 aeroplanes including many big bombers, at Vladivostok. The transfer of the fleet to the Pacific in case hostilities broke out with Russia might be expected, rendering her a potential enemy like Italy in the Great War.”