SEES WRITING ON WALL FOR JAPAN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 29 October 1941, Page 8

SEES WRITING ON WALL FOR JAPAN

CHINA'S SMII.IM, DIPLOMAT IN :*ii:lis(h rni 1 ° nf ' "< China's ace can or diplomats ] Dr. Hsu Mo. first Chinese Minister l< '' 1 1 ’ *' • a ved \Telbourni ' ’" ' ' tin ritin i the uaj i for .lapan. With each ot the anti , re sor Pow : ' Paci t man power and resources to the peak o ; efficiency. it remained for them to joir 'in a security bloc to curb militaris ' hotheads, he declared. He warnec tliat Japan was preparing to stab Hus- ; ■ ■ “Argus”). Small, dapper, and alert. Dr H.-u ha; bemi one ot China’s most popular diplomats wherever he has been stationed fie greets you with a beaming smile i speaks polished English with a bareh | noticeable accent, and ha.- a command i of words as easy a.- any of our best ■ ! "Your country has given me the | warmest of welcomes. I like it. and ir I m > short stay I have learned to like Aust:alians I say that, from the heart : is not what you would call a diploI matic l ®menk I So he summed up his reaction U I Australia. I Dv Hsu Mo believes that the most ' ' ' vay to avert an extension o t host'iitu in ii c Pacific to < - Japanese tion of a united front b.v C’hm.i, tlu •Soviet. USA and Australia Japar v io no .-hap« p -vchologica 11v oi materially to challenge -uch a line-ur I of Powers, he said. TIDE TURNING IN ( INN \ I “The most significant happening; ! since the outbreak of the war in Chin: j ore our recent victories at Changsm : an 1 'cnang. ’ Dr. Hsu ■(nt oi Chin; has been building up and training nev, armies million; trong She j mobilising her vast iv-uuitc-. Now i the momentum of our vast war effort r beg pning to tel! against the war-wran •Inp-ine-e The tide i bcgmnmg t. I tutu. | "Tnere lies the dangei of a new anc : desperate bid b.v the Japanese iniiitar ! ists in tin hope of breaking the impasst ! and tallying the depressed spirits o then peopie With the Japanese armie: i bogged in China, new forces are bein'. J concentrated m Manchoukuo for a pos sibie move to stab the Soviet in the | back The signs also point to a Japan- ; ese move in Indo-China. but ii is impossible to say whether these new attempts will be made simultaneously, i ‘lf \\ai breaks out in the Pacific. | predict that Australia and China wil inevitably move to a more intimate ■ stage of friendship and co-operation < 1 bebeve our relations could be ever 1 closer now than they are.'