JAPANESE ATTITUDE

Grey River Argus, 28 April 1943, Page 2

JAPANESE ATTITUDE

ARGENTINE DIPLOMAT’S ACCOUNT. LONDON, April 25. Senor Ramon Lavalie, former commercial attache to the Argentine Embassy at Tokio, said Brigadier-Gen-eral James Doolittle’s raid on Tokio last year, was one of the greatest phychological tricks ever used. It cracked Japanese confidence. Japanese ran everywhere, pushing, shouting; and screaming. Tokio had not, and still has not. air-raid shelters. The Japanese, however, now search the skies from morning till night. The Japanese fear the Russians. They think the Russians the only soldiers as good as themselves. Thev believe the Russians will beat the Germans. Japanese Army men told me: “Once we have beaten England and America we will attack Russia if sh e is still fightinv Germany. Since Germany will be weakened we will conquer her as well General Tojo is afraid of the American Navy. Japanese shipping losses are already worrying officials, one of whom said Japan had already lost 1,500,000 tons of shipping. Senor Lavalie is convinced that the only method, of beating Japan involves invasion. “We will just have to go in and beat the Japanese to their knees. Thev will never surrender,” he said. “The Japanese morale is excellent. The country is reconciled to ai century of war.”

HONG KONG HORROR.

LONDON, April 25. According to Senor Ramon Lavalle, former Commercial Attache to the Argentine Embassy, in Tokio. 'who has arrived in the United States, Japanese soldiers tied British women’s hands behind their backs and raped them in the streets of Hong Kong. He said: “I saw unbelievable barbarity in Hong Kong, Japanese soldiers bayoneted wounded British soldiers while they were in bed in the Stanley Hospital."