JAPAN AND PACIFIC

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1934, Page 12

JAPAN AND PACIFIC

AGGRESSIVE IDEAS DENIED

[per press association.] WELLINGTON, April 16. Mr. Kuramatsu Murai, Consul-Gen-eral for Japan in Australia and New Zealand, interviewed on his arrival by the Maunganui, from Sydney, said that the idea of a political invasion or conquest of the Pacific had not entered the heads of his country’s leaders. He said that there were cranks here and there who had suggested such a thing, but maybe it was the result of a daydream. Japan did not turn covetous eyes on Australia and New Zealand. So far as the Pacific was concerned, she was quite prepared to remain pacificatory. Japan, he said, was too much occupied will Manchuria, without looking to the South. With reference to Russia, he said that it was Russia’s policy to propagate Communism all over the world, to bring about a revolution, and this was a, potential danger. It was not Japan s intention to conquer Russia, nor China. SIAM DENIES RUMOURS. BANGKOK. April 15. The Siamese Government, which at first ignored rumours that it had secretly agreed to allow Japan to use the coast as a submarine base, has now issued an official denial, owing to the unrest created.