JAPANESE WARSHIPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 217, 12 August 1940, Page 7

JAPANESE WARSHIPS.

REPORTED OFF INDO-CHINA. MOSCOW, Aug. 10. The radio states that 100 Japanese warships aro manoeuvring off almost the whole coast of French IndoCliina, and nearly 200 warplanes are concentrated on islands off the coast.

A Shanghai message says ViceAdmiral Hantoro Shimada, commander of the China fleet, has issued a proclamation which will become effective on August 15, declaring that the blockade of the Wenchow sector will he extended southward to Shumchun, and shortly north to Amoy. In Tokio the Nichi Nichi Shimbun described the British troop withdrawal from Shanghai and North China as being with the “intention of killing two birds with one stone,” first to ameliorate the strained Anglo-Japan-ese relations through cajolery, and secondly to ' strengthen the Singapore defences. It said: “Japan is watching the British moves and is unlikely to, consider the withdrawal as a political consideration for the settlement of,the espionage cases.” The former Foreign Minister, Admiral Nomura, has returned from a month’s trip to the South Seas, where he visited Davao, Tawao and Medado. The Miyako Shimbun said he stressed the necessity of tire Government taking measures to enable a large emigration of Japanese southward to start enterprises.