JAPAN AND U.S.A.

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 November 1939, Page 8

JAPAN AND U.S.A.

INCREASE IN FRICTION.

[BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.]

(Recd. November 4, 11.45 a.m.)

NEW YORK, November 3

A message from the Shanghai correspondent of the “New York Times” states that while the Japanese are hurrying the preparations for Wang Ching Wei’s installation, Japanese indignation against America is steadily mounting, despite occasional appeasing statements. In Tokio, statesmen, and high Japmilitary figures in China, declare: “America is driving us into the arms of Russia through her refusal to recognise the new order in the East and Asia.” Obviously it is hoped that the dangers of a Russio-Japanese rapprochement will cause the United States to modify her stand. Japan’s army leaders are insistent that they prefer to meet Russia halfway, instead of appeasing America. Only the naval and diplomatic classes prefer friendship with the democracies, if obtainable, since they are without delusions that Russia will long permit Japan to retain her planned hold on China.