WAR IN PACIFIC FELT NEARER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 4

WAR IN PACIFIC FELT NEARER

VIEW IN AUSTRALIA Auckland, Oct. 2". "Australia sees the present move- ] ment in Japan as bringing war in the 1 Pacific appreciably nearer,” said Sir Keith Murdoch, managing director of the "Herald.’' Melbourne. Sir Keith is I visiting Auckland on his way to the I United Kingdom, and will leave by j Pan-American Airways clipner at the 1 wc-k-end "-We have every desire for friendship with Japan," he continued. "We have exchanged Ministers and are on courteous and civil terms, but if Japanese j policy bring a collision we are entirely , reconciled to it. ‘Of course, the Japanese have come a long way south with their airline, and high-ranking officers are arriving in some strength.” Sir Keith added, re- i i fer ring to the extension of a Japanese ; ai-bnc to Timor. "The Japanese ob- 1 viously mean to make the most of their new privileges, but we arc quite close there, too We are not particularly concerned with the fact that a JapanI ese airline Is coming to Timor.”—P.A. '