Japanese Urged to Strike Russia From East

Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 160, 8 July 1943, Page 5

Japanese Urged to Strike Russia From East

LONDON, July 6. Hitler is believed to have been urging Japan to attack Russia simultaneous!) with tho German summer offensive. All available information points to the fact that the Japanese have been playing with the idea, but it is likely that they will wait until they see how the German offensive fares.

Berlin radio to-day reports that senior Japanese officers for the first time are visiting the Russian front. The Japanese military attache in Ber lin is also there with a party. The military correspondent of the “New York Herald-Tribune, Major Field ing Eliot, says that it is unlikely that Japan possesses enough material to fight stoutly in the Pacific as well as launch an attack against Russia. “This is doubtless very disappointing to the Germans who have been delaying then own thrusts against Russia until Japan was ready to strike a simultaneous blow.

‘‘ If the Japanese do launch an offensive against Russia while they arc engaged in the Pacific, they will either lose both or gamble one against the other a ” concludes Major Eliot.