JAPANESE ACTIVITIES
"READY TO GO OVER THE TOP" Demands on Thailand OIL EMBARGO A HEAVY BLOW (Rec. 1.30 p.m.) London, Aug. 3. Messages from Tokio state that Japanese activities create the impression that Japan is ready “to go over the top. The view taken in London is that the latest threats indicate Japan's determination to break the Anglo-American blockade or frighten Thailand into granting concessions. Mr Tolischus, the “New York Times” Tokio correspondent, says that while Japan is hound irrevocably to her course in Asia the .Government is reacting cautiously to the tightening Anglo-American blockade because it realises that the present war effort in (.hina is hound to eat up reserve stocks quickly if the blockade prevents replenishment. Thus, while Japan s statesmen are unable to change their expansionist course they do not want to plunge the nation into a total and probably a prolonged war against nations richer and J stronger than Japan at least until the trend of the Russo-German coni flict is clearer.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 4 August 1941, Page 6
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