NO COMPROMISE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24696, 27 August 1941, Page 7

NO COMPROMISE

AMERICAN POLICIES THE FAR EAST SITUATION INFORMAL TALKS WITH JAPAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. The Secretary of State, Mr Cordell Hull, speaking to the press, said that only informal talks were in progress with Japan concerning differences in the Pacific. Mr Hull indicated that the United States was not willing to compromise in any way on fundamental principles and policies, and declined to discuss Mr Churchill’s reference to Japan. The New York Herald-Tribune says the Government has recalled from Japan the language students of the American Army and Navy. They have already sailed fm* Shanghai. The New York Herald-Tribune says official quarters in Washington have little faith in the outcome of the informal talks with Japan. FAR EAST SQUADRON BRITISH BATTLESHIPS NEW YORK, (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) Aug. 25. “It can be assumed that Britain has sent three battleships to Singapore,” says the New York Post. “ The diversion of American naval forces from the Pacific to the Atlantic is taken as confirmation of reports published in the United States that Britain has reinforced her Far Eastern squadron. “The United States Navy is now equally divided in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and may start shooting' in the event of new German threats in either ocean,” states Major Hanson Baldwin, military correspondent of the New York Times. “ The Germans,” he adds, “ are preparing for an • intensified U-boat campaign throughout the winter if they are bogged down in Russia. This campaign will be counterbalanced by more efficient and swifter construction of American merchantmen, submarine chasers, patrol planes and aircraft carriers. The Maritime Commission plans to launch two freighters a day during the next two years.” Major Baldwin considers that Britain’s blockade of the Continent is growing more important every month.