FAR EAST TENSION

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 October 1933, Page 7

FAR EAST TENSION

A CRITIC OF JAPAN

CONQUEST AIMS ALLEGED

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LONDON, October 12.

“Japan wants war! She covets Australia. Her idea is first Manchukuo, and next China, India, and Australia, including New Zealand, and then Russia. It. will come sooner than is expected,” says Professor Taid O’Conory, formerly on the staff of Keio University, Japan, in his book, “The Menace of Japan.” Piofessor O’Conory, who has served in the British Army, has also spent many years in Japan. He married into an aristocratic Japanese family. He described the Japanese men as being ruthless, lustful and treacherous. He adds: “They will slowly carry on their plans, which are first to subjugate the East, unless the Powers step in. Japan is working at top speed towards war. She will soon march on China.”

The “Daily Mail” says: O’Conroy’s book is the darkest picture of Japan anyone yet painted. O’Conroy would try credulity less if he had given the other side of the picture. The book from first to last is full of virulent bias, which puts readers on their guard.

SINGAPORE BASE.

SINGAPORE, October 12.

“Talk of that kind can only be characterised as nonsense.” declared Captain Euan Wallace. Civil Lord of the Admiralty, when interviewed at Singapore concerning a recent article by Rear Admiral Inji, in a Japanese newspaper, alleging that the Singapore Base is merely the preparation for a war with Japan. Captain Wallace said: “The completion of this work is an obligation of honour to those units of the Empire which have contributed large sums of money to its construction.”

Captain Wallace to-morrow will inspect the Base, which is making excellent progress. It will be completed well within the contract time.

RUSSIAN TROOPS MOVING.

(Received October 14, 8 a.m.) LONDON, October 13

A Harbin message states that transSiberian railway passengers report passing Soviet troop trains going eastward, every 45 minutes. Manchukuo troops are concentrating in the vicinity of Harlar.

URUGUAYAN MISSION.

TOKIO, October 13.

A special Uruguayan mission recently arrived in Japan to attempt to obtain an agreement to supplant' Australian wool in Japanese markets. The mission is proposing a reciprocal trade agreement, Uruguay accepting Japanese manufactures in exchange for its wool.

Uruguay has recently opened a Legation in Tokio, at which there havfe been elaborately entertained at. a luncheon, the Japanese Foreign Vice Minister and seventy leading business men.