JAPAN CONFIDENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 297, 17 December 1941, Page 5

JAPAN CONFIDENT

WILL OF GOD THAT RIGHT WILL PREVAIL TOKIO REPORTS OF REC ENT ACTIVITIES. <Recd. 11.45 p.m. New York, Dec. 14. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. S. Togo, addressing Axis diplomats at a luncheon commemorating the signing of the Tripartite Fact, said the world was facing an historic turning [joint. Germans was reaping the fruits of Victory in Europe and Africa, and Japan was non driving Anglo-Ameri-can influences from East Asia, 'll is toe .'.ill of God that wrong cannot prevail os er right." he said. "Therefore, the outcome of file present star is very clear." The Japanese At my Headquarters announced that Aims planes mass raided bases in Burma and Mala xa. inflii ting severe damage. It said that two transpoits xver stink and another heavily damaged in a raid off the north-western coast of Maias a. It also claimed the destruction of 100 trucks and added that Japanese troops had over-run Koxvioon (the mainland opposite Hongkong>. The report added: "It will only be a matter of days before the Rising Sun flies over Hongkong.” Japanese Imperial Headquarters claimed to have destroyed an entire British mechanised division in Malaya. Imperial Headquarters asserted that Japanese units attacked American Army Headquarters at Tarlac. 70 miles north-west of Manila, on Monday and destroyed army barracks.

Japanese Headquarters declared that the sinking of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse virtually obliterated Britain's far-ea.tern fleet. Tokio Army Headquarters said that Formosa a iJapanese island north-east of Hongkong had its first air-raid scare on Saturday night, when 12 planes xxere sighted on Takao. 450 miles north of the Philippines. However. they veered off without approaching the city.