Anti-British Articles in Japan
STRESSING BRITAIN’S MILITARY DECLINE. LONDON, January S. The Herald’s Tokio correspondent says that a scries of violent antiBritish articles have suddenly started appearing in prominent Japanese papers stressing Britain’s "military and industrial decline”; also her "inability further to develop her colonies,” while Japan remains landstarved.
The influential Kikumia quotes Mr. Baldwin’s speeches on the weakness of the British army and navy. It says that the youth of Britain are reluctant to fight to-day, instancing the Oxford Union’s vote "That this house would not fight for King and Country,” and adds “Japan may well come into a conflict with Britain in her development of the south.” The article does not mention Australia by name, but emphasises Japan’s need for territory to accommodate her jmereasins population,
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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 8, 10 January 1936, Page 7
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