MORE PLANES.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXI, Issue 12398, 10 November 1934, Page 5

MORE PLANES.

PLEA BY' JAP PATRIOTS TOKIO, Oct. 2. An official army pamphlet which urged Japan to make ready for a pps sible war with Russia, spread uaesiness among the nationls economic leaders to-day, and this uneasiness was reflected on the 'stock exchange.

Newspapers said members of the Cabinet, as well as civilians, were taken back hv the army’s surprising manifesto, which proposed drastic changes in the nation’s economic life and in non-militarv government departments. It auserted the United States, and Russia each has three airplanes to Japan’s one < and ■ that America wanted a navy larger, than tin’s country’s m order to support vigorous policies towards the Orient. Newspapers asserted that General Senjuro Hayaulii, Minister of War, would be questioned -at the .next Cabinet meeting about responsibility or authorship of the pamphlet. A War Office spokesman said: “I can state that the pamphlet expresses the views of the Japanese army.” The pamphlet said the strength Soviet from inierfcrniig with the power of the Japanese Navy and made “futile the threats” of Air. Heniy L. Stimson, former United States Secretary of State. In this connection it referred to alleged utterances of the late RearAdmiral Edward W. Eberie to the effect that the American Navy was capable of assuming any offensive necessary to enforce tho “open-door” policy in China.