JAPAN REBUFFED

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLX, Issue 14654, 3 February 1941, Page 5

JAPAN REBUFFED

DUTCH REFUSAL TD CO-OPERATE OBJECTION TO INCORPORATION OF INDIES REPLY TO -MR. MATSUOK A. (British Official Wireless). RUGBY. February 1. It is announced in London that the Netherlands Minister in Tokio has been instructed to deliver a message to the Japanese Government to the effect that whatever may have been the real meaning of the words used by the Japanese Foreign Minister (Mr Matsuoka) in his speech in the Diet in January with reference to the Netherlands Indies, the NetherlamLs Government reject any suggestion of having the Netherlands Indies incorporated in the New Order in East Asia under the leadership of any Power whatsoever.

At the same time, General Pabst stated, lus Government can never be expected either to let their actions be guided by the spirit of such a conception of new order in the Far East or to acquiesce in the consequences of its eventual application .

In the course of the speech referred to, Mr Matsuoka, according to Agency reports. said: “The Netherlands East Indies and French 1 ndo-China. if only for geographical reasons, should be in intimate and inseparable relationship with our country.”