Tokio Press Talks Of Vaster War

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 95, 22 April 1941, Page 5

Tokio Press Talks Of Vaster War

JAPAN AND SOVIET ON SIDE OF THE AXIS TRUCULENT WORDS TOKTO. April 20. The Japanese Press declared today that It was no longer a crasy dream to expect a great war with Japan, Germany, Italy, and the Soviet on one side and the United States, Britain, and China on the I other. ! The newspaper Miyako, which reflected the opinion expressed in ell the ! other papers, said: “A possible war between Germany and the Uniied States would necessarily lead to war between Japan and the United States, and this war might come before June.** Japan and the Soviet appear to be accepting the new neutrality pact at its face value. There have been recent removals of Japanese troops in Manchukuo southward in a direction indicating that they were not bound for China but for Dairen or elsewhere from which they could be embarked for movement to Singapore or Indo-China. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Matsuoka, in a broadcast, said that the new pact was advantageous to both sides, and he praised enthusiastically the remarkable advance in Soviet conditions since his last visit in 1933. He said that, as a result of his eonversations with Hitler and Mussolini, the Three-Power Pact has been tightened, and he declared that the Soviet, Germany, and Italy were making full preparedness with the firm resolution to combat the unprecedentedly aggravated world situation. I There was evidence everywhere in Germany and Italy that the peoples of those countries would tend to share a common destiny with Japan.