JAPAN’S AMBITIONS.
GREAT EAST ASIA BLOC. TOKIO, Aug. 8. Tho Japanese Navy spokesman (Admiral Kanazawa) said the recent changes ill Japan were most important. It was Japan's responsibility to. create a great East Asia bloc as a contribution to world peace. He said. Japan was merely acting along world tendencies toward three or four regional blocs whose co-opera-tio.ti was the only course to world peace. Ho cited the example of the United States’s Pan-American activities. The Chinese Press at Shanghai reports that the Vichy Government has informed Marshal Cliiang Kai-shek that France is standing firm over IndoChina and will resist any Japanese military moves. Replying to a question in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary to the Home Office (Captain 0. Peake) said the number of Japanese registered with the police in Britain was 865, of whom 762 were males, states a British Official Wireless message.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 215, 9 August 1940, Page 7
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