MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1941, Page 6

MAJOR DEVELOPMENT

EXPECTED IN FAR EAST \ Before the End of November CONTINUED JAPANESE TROOP MOVEMENTS TO INDO-CHINA CHIANG KAI-SHEK ANTICIPATES YUNAN DRIVE (By Telegraph. —Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 17. Japanese troops, transports and supply ships are arriving* daily both at Hanoi and Saigon, reports the Associated Press of America. Shanghai correspondent. Informed circles believe that some major development will occur before the end of November. “Japan is contemplating a Yunan drive, to isolate Chungking from the other anti-aggression Powers,’’ said General Chiang Kai-Shek, in an address to the People’s Political Council. He was confident, he said, that Mr Kurusu would not be successful in his efforts to relieve United States pressure against Japan, whose only salvation consisted of accepting the democracies’ peace terms. These included the abandonment of aggression, withdrawal from China, including her north-eastern provinces, withdrawal from Indo-Chma and withdrawal from the Tripartite Alliance. Emphasising that strength lay in unity, Mr Quo Tai-chi, Foreign Minister, said it would be most advantageous to the A.B.C.D. Powers to declare an open alliance, especially against the Axis aggressors, which long ago had openly announced their alliance.

The Bangkok radio announced that the Government had ordered provincial governors to call up reservists between 18 and 45 years of age.