JAPAN'S DEFEAT

Grey River Argus, 21 June 1944, Page 2

JAPAN'S DEFEAT

e RUSSIAN’S PREDICTION

LONDON, June 19.

Tn' the frankest article on J'apanP cp imperialism thus far published In Russia, a Soviet commentator', Klementi Popov, is the first R’Ussian writer to predict outright that Japan will be' defeated. . Writing in the journal War and the Working Class.” Popov says: In the days when Hitler’s hordes devastated the Soviet Union, Japan included the Soviet Far East, Siberia, and even the Middle East, in her 'sphere. However, the plans of Tananese imperialists found a bitter end with the defeat of the German armies at Stalingrad. The position of the Japanese imperialists, in the Tight of the Allied Pacific counteroffensives .and the prolongation of the war in China, becomes more and more diffi cult - J ' a P an is in a ite coalition which is going down to Inevitable defeat.