JAPAN’S STATEMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 64, 17 March 1942, Page 5

JAPAN’S STATEMENT

NEW ORDER IN THE EAST London, March 14. A Vichy news agency dispatch from Berne quotes an interview given by Admiral Oshima to Deutsch-Allge-ir.cine Zeitung, in which Admiral Oshima is stated to have endeavoured to calm the fears “which exist even outside British and Saxon countries on the subject ci the future of the white 1 race in the Far East.” Admiral Oshima declares that Japan, in taking possession of greater East Asia, is basing herself on the tripartite pact. “Japan and the friendly Powers cooperating with her wish to institute a new order throughout the whole world,” he says. “Their efforts should have the enduring effect of a legitimate and sacred aim, but this demands mutual confidence. As regards the economic position, our existence and joint prosperity will be realised bj acting in such a way that we are closely complementary to one another. It goes without saying that the raw materials of Greater Asia will be at the disposal of Powers allied to Japan in the same way that it is essential that these territories shall receive German machinery. We know well that if Japan’wanted to close the doors of Asia for egoistic motives and institute a monopoly of raw materials, she would repeat the mistake made b.y Britain and Holland. Such an attitude would render impossible the institution of the new order of Greater Asia in the Far East.” Admiral Oshima declared that the policy of destruction in Malaya and the Dutch East Indies had not gone as far as the enemy desired. Thus, before the end even of the fighting, rubber from Malaya had arrived in Japan.