TOKIO BOASTFUL
EXHORTATION TO INDIA INFLUENCE OF BRITAIN NEW YOEK, April 6 The Tokio official radio says the Prime Minister, Tojo, in a statement, exhorted India to reject Britain's offer of post-war independence. He recalled Japan's progress through Malaya, Burma and the Andaman Islands, and said: "The grim determination of our empire to crush the United States and Britain is thus being steadily translated into action. If India should remain as before under the military control of Britain, it would, I am afraid, be unavoidable, in the course of our subjugation of the British forces there, that India should suffer great calamities." Tojo asserted that British influence in India was now about to be exterminated. The Japanese spokesman, Hori, in a similar appeal, said: "It does not matter who obtains command of the armed forces in India. The only way left is to crush that army."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24243, 8 April 1942, Page 5
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