Japan Not Thinking Of Invading Australia
SYDNEY, Sept. 4
“I do not think Russia will be defeated,” said Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Australian economist and explorer, who has come back from Japan and China to continue an independent ecnomic and social survey in Australia, before returning to the United States. “If the Axis Powers succeed in, Russia, then the Japanese will make more rtrenuous efforts to develop their new east Asia policy,” said Sir Hubert. He did not think Japan would be able to retain her' foothold in China, even in occupied China, because the Chinese would be able to put forward enough economic, not physical pressure, to compel the Japanese to withdraw. Sir Hubert did not think the Japanese had thoughts of invading Australia, and said they would rather try to do business with the Commonwealth. The only hostility to Australia that was expressed in Japan arose from the fact that Australia happened to be part of the British Commonwealth of Nations which was blocking Japan’s east Asia movement.
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1941, Page 4
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