JAPAN’S CONCERN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 213, 10 September 1941, Page 6

JAPAN’S CONCERN

DISCUSSIONS WITH U.S.A. NEW AMBASSADOR FOR BRITAIN TRADE TREATY WITH RUSSIA TO BE RATIFIED (Recd. 9.50 p.m.) Tokio, S»-pl. S. The superintendent of the Japanese Cabinet Information Bureau. Mi. Ishii, said the most important question now as far as Japan is concerned is the Japanese-American discussions. “However, I am sorry I cannot say anything about them yet.” he declared. He said that Japan was sending a new Ambassador to London soon, but he was not able to give his name. Mr. Ishii said Britain was not involved as yet in the Japanese-Ameri-can discussions, and that the unratified Japanese-Russian trade treaty would soon be submitted to the Privy Council for ratification. —U.P.A. FOR INDO-CHINA NEW AMBASSADOR APPOINTED (Recd. 10.30 p.m.) Tokio. Sept. 9. Kenkichi Yoshizawa, former Foreign Minister, has been appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiary to French Indo-China as a result of “increasingly friendly relations following the conclusion of the joint defence pact." He wall be empowered to conduct diplomatic negotiations with the GovernorGeneral and also will head the various Japanese organisations in IndoChina. —U.P.A. “LIVE LIKE A LION” BELLIGERENT PRO-AXIS LEADER •Ru d. 9.' 11 p.m.' Tokio. Sept. 8. The Leader of the pro-Axis Tohokai Association. Saigo Nakano, who disagrees with the present trend of the Government policy, announced that he is delivering an address entitled “Live Like a Lion." at a mass meeting on Sunday.—U.P.A. STAND BY FORMOSA IF JAPAN BECOMES JUST “ANOTHER INVADER” i Recd. lb p.m.) Tokio. Sept. 8. The Governor-General of Formosa. Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, writing in the Kokumin. said that while the South Seas were vital to J span's economy, “when you get the idea that the common prosperity sphere is going to be a Japanese monopoly you will be unable to achieve a co-pros-peritv sphere." He said that Southern Asia natives will combine with the present rule m fighting against Japan if Japan becomes merely “another invader. U.P.A. “WAITED TOO LONG” JAPAN'S EXPANSION STOPPED BRITAIN STRONGER THAN LAST YEAR Manila, Sept. 8. "Japan waited too long for further expansion southward,” said Mr. Duff Cooper, who arrived here by clipper to-day. “A year ago was her most auspicious time, but to-day we are in a stronger position in every’ way’, and pverything in the past year has been to our advantage.”—U.P.A. JAPAN’S MAIN DUTY DEFENDING EAST .ASIA New Yoik, Sept. 8. Having some to the conclusion that , Japan’s main duty lies in defending East Asia from an extension of war j interference by third Powers, th Japanese Press is now urging Marshal l Chiang Kai-shek to give us his resistance in order “to liberate East Asia from the burden of the white man.” says The Times’ Tokio correspondent. The newspaper Hochi calls upon Chiang Kai-shek “not to be a jackal to the Anglo-American tiger.” It pleads with him to engage in serious reflection ana ask the pardon of his people for past misconduct and promptly liquidate himself. Commentator Teeichi Muto, in an open letter to Chiang Kai-shek, calls him a “black ingrate,’* and says his anti-Japanism is enough to cause his benefactor Sun-Yat-Sen to weep in the nether world. Muto adds: “On Japan’s shoulders hangs the destiny of ail Asia, including China. This is the time when you should liquidate your past attitude.”—U.P.A. WHAT JAPAN WANTED DEMAND TO HOLLAND LAST YEAR (Reed. 7.35 p.m.t London, Sept. 9. The Dailv Telegraph says the Dutch Go vernment in London revealed that the day Germany invaded Holland, on May 10, 1940, the Japanese Minister at The Hague presented a Note to the Netherlands’ Foreign Minister, which, if met, would have meant the capitulation of the Netherlands East Indies to Japan. The Dutch Government was prepared to allow Japan to obtain raw materials for her own use but refused to give up the Indies.— U.P.A.