TRANSPORTS GATHERING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 August 1941, Page 5

TRANSPORTS GATHERING

REPORT FROM TOKIO ATTACK ON RUSSIA RUMOURED WARNING El JAPANESE PRESS London, . The C hinese are convinced that the threat of a Japanese move against Thailand is intended to preoccupy the A.B.Powers while Japan prepares for an attack on Russia at Yladivostoek, according to “The Times” Hong Kong correspondent. The “Daily Mail’s” Shanghai representative quotes Tokio reports that the greatest assembly of transports ever seen is gathering, it is reported, for Korea and Dairen. A warning that if Russian-Japanese ! j relations get worse the Kremlin alone j i will be responsible is given by the ; Tokio newspaper “Hochi Shimbun,” which adds that Japan cannot remain indifferent to reports that Moscow has s (agreed to pool war materials with the I anti-Ax is Powers because Russia is j i ware that Japan's efforts to settle the ; China affair are being delayed by British and American obstruction, j The “Nichi Nichi Shimbun” warns, ' j the Soviet to reject the Moscow threej power conference, which would mean | further encirclement of Japan, i According to the Shanghai corres- ; pondent of the Associated Press of ! Great Britain Japanese sources intimaj ted that the Nanking regime intends to ’joust British and United States consuijlar officials from Japanese-occupied ; I China on the grounds that they have' ' I failed to recognise Mr Wang. ALIENS AT SINGAPORE , 1 The Domei News Agency correspon- • dent at Singapore says that all Japa - . • nese and other aliens within a fifteeni j mile radius of the Singapore naval j > base have been ordered to leave the • j area within a fortnight. The Japanese j include residents and officers and con- . I cerns holding vast rubber tracts, and ! they are appealing against the decision, ’ It is officially announced at Cairo - that large quantities ol' Egyptian cotton ■ ready for shipment to "apan would not i L !g.. forward following cancellation of all ! navicerts for cargoes from Egypt to Japan.—U.P.A. t RUSSIAN ARMY RI Ain j The Tokio correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says there are reliable indications that the Russian Far Eastern army's strength has been fully mobilised and stationed ion the Siberian border. The Domei News Agency reported that Japanese assistance to Indo-China • , might be increased because ot the - j tightening of the encirclement ol the Japanese sphere by Britain and the . ■ United States.