WAR IN PACIFIC

Grey River Argus, 16 September 1941, Page 6

WAR IN PACIFIC

SOONER OR LATER U.S.A, and Japan Irreconcilable ? (Rec Midnight) SYDNEY, Sept. 15. An American newspaper correspondent, Mr Hallett Abend, is visiting Australia. He says he is convinced that hostilities in the Pacific will break oifi. sooner or later. He also sa.a he believed that America will have to come fully into the war. The tension in the Pacific, he said, had immobiliswi vast forces. One had only to reflect on what a difference three thousand planes and three hundred thousand men would have made in Greece, if they had not been immobilised in Singapore and in the Indies areas. Mr Abend said that he saw no reason to feei hopeful about the outcome of the United States-Japanese The position of these two nations was so hopelessly opposed, he said, that it would be next to impossible to find a basis of agreement. He added that. Japan would never agree to remote her troops from China. Her armies would never obey an imperial order to evacuate China, and to give up the fruits of the four years of war there. There would be no work for them back in Japan, and, he said, “Where they are, they live on loot.” Mr Abend has been stationed for 15 years in tne Far East.