Japan Gets Foretaste Of What is to Come

Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 95, 23 April 1942, Page 5

Japan Gets Foretaste Of What is to Come

EFFECT OF RAID ON TOKIO (British Official Wireless.) Received Wednesday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, April 21. “The bombing of Tokio at the weekend was only a foretaste of what Japan will have to swallow later on,” Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, High Commissioner for Canada, said to-night. Japan had managed to inflict a crescendo of disasters on the Allies in the Pacific. People should not underestimate those defeats which had been truly staggering, but at the same time the leaders in Britain and America had not been idle in the past few weeks. Mr. MacDonald said Germany still was the greatest military Power in the world and he hoped people would not listen to rumours about cracks in the Reich. The Allies had got to strike very hard before thpse cracks could como within the bounds of practical politics. “Nevertheless,” he said, “keep all your thoughts on this war in balanced j perspective. If you do that you must realise that the prodigious weight of America which has now been thrown into the balance must, unless we are untrue to ourselves, give us complete victory in the end.” Chungking states that over 50 Japaneso bombers attacked airfields in Eastern for tho second time in 24 hours, apparently believing that the American planes which raided Tokio were based there. Thirty-six bombers raided the airfield at Chuchow in the west of Chekiang province and ten bombed Yushan in the east of Kiangsi province. All lie approximately 2000 miles from Japan. The Tokio official radio says that i Hatta and Terashima, Japanese Railway and Transportation Ministers, reported to Cabinet to-day that the transportation system was hardly disturbed in Saturday’s, air raids. The postal service was resumed fully shortly after the planes' departure. The Domei News Agency quoted the Japanese Christian leader Kagawa as saying that prayers were being said daily for the restoration of peace throughout the world.