BIDING TIME

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20632, 13 August 1941, Page 6

BIDING TIME

JAPANESE POUNCE BELIEF IN LONDON MORE PRESS WARNINGS BRITAIN AND AMERICA (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Aug. 13. 2 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 12. The Tokio paper Kokumin Shimbun said that the United States and Britain had been warned that any further pressure on Japan would bring nothing but the worst situation and Japan would go ahead with grim resolve towards the establishment cf her sphere in East Asia. Well-informed circles in London are unable to see any prospect of a lasting peaceful settlement emerging from the present crisis. They believe that if Japan does not press the present crisis to the jpoint of war immediately, she will at least remain poised ready to pounce when she thinks the time is more opportune. It is learned op good authority that the Japanese High Command is planning to place 180,000 troops in Indo-China. The majority will be stationed in west Cambodia, adjoining the Thailand border, say's the Saigon corespondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. Cdlonel Ss.rablaga, leader of the Thai boundary commission, said that Thailand would welcome foreign* aid -if attacked, but at present there was no pressure from any quarter. He added that Thailand could not consider demands for military and naval bases or a right for the transit of troops. Any armed attempt to violate Thailand’s neutrality would be resisted by all the available means. ' More Than Sanctions Needed The Chungking correspondent of the New York Times says that Wang ShihChieh, the Chinese Minister of Publicity, told the press that more than economic sanctions against' Japan by the United States and Britain would be necessary to keep the Japanese out of Thailand. Which appeared to be resisting Japanese aggression, but would be successful only if supported by the United State's and Britain. The New York Herald-Tribune says that if Russia collapses or Vichy agrees to help make the south Atlantic a German playground, then Japan will surge onward. The Shanghai c'or:espondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain reports that the Japanese spokesman stated that hi's Government was deeply concerned over the possibility that ! Vladivostoek might become America’s first line of defence against Japan. He added that Japan was determined to end the • China affair successfully, either by annihilation of the Chungking regime or by incoi’poration in Nanking. A solution was closer because the quality of the Chinese front line troops was deteriorating Japan was in no particular hurry in the China war. She did not want to speed up natural processes. Since Japan’s aim was reconstruction, not destruction, it would take some time