Sees No Prospect Of Pacific Peace

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1941, Page 4

Sees No Prospect Of Pacific Peace

(Rec 1 p.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. The noted American newspaper correspondent, Hallett Abend, who is visiting Australia, is convinced that hostilities in the Pacific will break out f.opner or later. He also beleved that America will have to come fully into the war. The tension in the Pacific, he said, had immobilised vast forces. One had only to reflect what a difference 3000 planes and 300,000 men would have made in Greece if they had not been immobilised at Singapore and in the East Indies areas. No Basis For Agreement Mr. Abend said he saw no reason to feel hopeful about the outcome of the United States and Japanese talks. The position of these two nations was so hopelessly opposed that it would be next to impossible to find a basis of agreement. He added that Japan would never agree to remove her troops from China. Her armies would never obey an Imperial order to evacuate China and give up the fruits of four years of war. There was no work for them back in Japan, “and where they are they live on loot.” Mr. Abend has been stationed for 15 years in the Far East.