JAPANESE IN INDOCHINA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 July 1941, Page 6

JAPANESE IN INDOCHINA

COAST AND INTERIOR POINTS TO BE OCCUPIED ANNOUNCEMENT BY VICHY (Rcc. 12.40 a.in.) London, July 28. The Vichy Government announced that the Japanese will occupy two points on the Indo-Chinese coast and several points in the interior. The delivery of rice fron 1 Jndo-China to Japan is one of the essential points in the agreement between the two countries. The announcement omitted all previous allusions to AngloChinese threats against Indo-China and declared that Japan asked for these concessions on behalf of her own interests. The Domei News Agency (Tokio) says Japan decided to liquidate her trade relations with the United States and Britain and concentrate on trading in Last Asia, on a basis of give and take. The “Japan Times and Advertiser” describes the United States as the hostile leader in a grim economic battle against Japan.

The correspondent of Hie Associated Press of Great Britain says informed, •iroles in Tnkio stated that action ! against the Netherlands East Indies, might produce even more far-reaching! consequences, particularly the stoppage >»f oil supplies. Mr Welles, Assistant-Secretary of State in the United States, stated in Washington that Latin American countries were free to act in any way deemed advisable in connection with oeo-; nomic measures against Japan. He declined to indicate whether American oil shipments to Japan would be stopped j or say whether Japan was seeking mili- j tary concessions in Thailand, but do-I dared that the United States, Britain l ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■

I j and other countries directly interested ! were in close consultation. Major-General MacArthur, Comman- i , der-in-Chief of the new United States army in the Far East, issued a warning i that his forces were ready for any ' eventuality and would defend American 1 interests in that zone at whatever cost and effort. Tne Tokio correspondent of the United Press of America says close on a panic spread to-day among traders on ; I the .Stock Exchange. The Government j I ordered the Official Securities Company i to advance funds to check tumbling 1 prices.—U.P.A.