JAPAN’S PURCHASES.
War Materials Bought in United States. WASHINGTON. April 0 Secretly apprehensive, Washington is watching the mounting Japanese purchases of war material from the United States, on top of the vast buying of cotton, army equipment, scrap iron, bullet lead and steels in 1933. Japan’s current orders include 150 tons of special nickel steel, and even more steel bars, slabs and ingots. 200 army tanksL 3.000 army aeroplane en gines, . S.OOOtohO ‘dollars (about £I,OOO 000) worth of firearms, 1.000,000 feet of gunstave timber, and increased quantities of nitrates and cotton. Apprehension is heightened by reports that arms and ammunition plants in Japan are running day and night, and that Japan is preparing for war in 1935. when her withdrawal from the League of Nations will take effect, and further isolate her. Japan is expected to take a firm stand then against a possible move to deprive her of the mandates over Pacific islands from Hawaii to the Philippines. She also faces the likelihood of a dispute over naval parity with the United States and Great Britain, and the possibility of a clash with Russia
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20280, 14 April 1934, Page 1
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