JAPS. IN PACIFIC

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19456, 15 October 1937, Page 11

JAPS. IN PACIFIC

ATTACK ON NEW ZEALAND “RIDICULOUS TALK “It is just as ridiculous to talk of Japan attacking New Zealand or Australia as lo continue the foolish talk which comes up at times in tlie American press that Japan may attack America. She cannot do it.” This reply was offered by an American, Mr. F. W. Mac Kay, of New York, who is visiting Christchurch, to warnings which have at times been made against Japan’s possible intentions in the Pacific. “Before Japan can attack New Zealand or Australia, she has to get by the British line at Singapore, and the American line at Pearl Harbour,” Mr. Mac Kay argued. “To attack successfully and make a sure tiling of her aggression, Japan must plant about 1,000,000 troops here. She then needs, in supplies and equipment, about six tons for each man for two months, which means 0,000,000 tons. Japan could land scarcely 200,000 men with the shipping she lias at her command.” To move an army to New Zealand was beyond Japan's powers, Mr. Mac Kay added. It was one thing to move men to China: but altogether another to move them to New Zealand. Besides, she would have to consider what - Britain and America were doing.”