PEACE MOVES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24460, 20 November 1940, Page 7

PEACE MOVES

FAR EAST CHESSBOARD THE JAPANESE EFFORTS DOOMED TO FAILURE (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) SHANGHAI, Nov. 19. (Received Nov. 20, at 1 a.m.) The Daily News says: " The Japanese efforts are doomed to failure, and even a Japanese withdrawal from China would not bring peace because any withdrawal would be aimed at the conquest of Southern Asia, after which Japan would eventually again invade China." Chinese military authorities do not fail to recognise this as their golden opportunity to defeat Japan. CHUNGKING'S "LAST CHANCE" TOKIO, Nov. 18. It is reliably reported that an Imperial conference on Wednesday decided to give Chungking its " last chance" to consider its attitude to Japan,,upon which, if it fails to reconsider it within a certain period, Japan will formally recognise Mr Wang Ching-wei. It is unimpeachably stated that Mr Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister, informed Mr Joseph C. Grew (the American Ambassador) on October 11 that he was seeking

contact with Marshal Chiang Kaishek for a final offer. It is understood that he requested Washington not to interfere in any peace move. The Domei Agency reports that Japanese forces voluntarily evacuated Lamchow, in the Nanning district, without bloodshed, on Sunday afternoon. POSTERS IN TOKIO " PREPARE AGAINST AMERICA" TOKIO, Nov. 19. (Received Nov. 20, at 1.15 a.m.) Glaring red and black posters appeared overnight throughout the city with the headline "Prepare Against America." The National Patriotic Party distributed the posters, which were particularly numerous in the vicinity of the United States Embassy. Asserting that Britain and the United States were showing an increasingly tough attitude in their Far Eastern preparations, the newspaper Asahi said: " We must be fully ready with a sharp watch in the south, besides rushing a solution of important domestic problems in China."