JAPAN'S OIL NEEDS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 206, 1 August 1941, Page 5

JAPAN'S OIL NEEDS.

(Roc. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. Congressman I and popular support lor President Roosevelt’s foreign poleiy has unquestionably been strengthened by the bombing of the Tutuila, states a Washington report. The House Military Affairs Committee has approved a resolution son lar to the Senate’s, favouring the extension of military service. Last week the situation over the measure was causing political leaders considerable concern; to-day its passage seems assured.

CRUCIAL FACTOR (Roc. 12.3 U p.m.) LONDON, July 31.' I The oil problem dominates the Japjanese political scene, according to the ; New York Times’s 'fokio correspon- ; dent. 'J'he Commerce .Ministry’s fuel i bureau reported to Cabinet that Japan has enough oil stored lor some time, but if her oil supplies are cut off Japan will have to act with great determination. The Tokio Press, shaking off its re-; straint, sees Batavia’s action in con- j junction with the assumption by the j United States of fhe control of the j Philippines forces as part of encircle- j m to be met by even more determined efforts te construct a sphere of self-sufficiency, enclosing China, unto-1 China, and Thailand. The construction j of such a sphere is “Japan's divined mission.’’ !