GERMANY AND RUSSIA
JAPANESE PEACE EFFORTS REPORT FROM SWISS SOURCE LONDON, Aug. 11. At a meeting with Hitler on Jujy 20 Baron Oshima proposed that Germany and Italy should continue to defend the Mediterranean as long as possible in order to tie up as much of the British Fleet as they could. Reporting this, the Berne correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Allehanda adds that Oshima proposed the partial evacuation of the Balkans in order to provide sufficient troops and material for this purpose, but that Crete should be strongly held by a suicide garrison, which should hold on as long as possible, thereby preventing Turkey from going into the war with the Allies. Oshima promised that in return Japan would repay German and Italian efforts by trying to. bring about peace between Russia and Germany. , The correspondent adds: “'Japan still believes tfiat she can influence Russia because the latter is apprehensive about a possible Japanese attack in the East.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25303, 13 August 1943, Page 5
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