PACIFIC WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 166, 19 July 1946, Page 5

PACIFIC WAR

NOMURA’S WARNING Tokio, July 15. Admiral Nomura, the Japanese Ambasador who was conducting "peace” negotiations in Washington when Japan struck at Pearl Harbour, said in an interview that he had warned his Government that it must stop the southward march of the Japanese arm.es or incur the wrath of the I United States. I Asked if he sent a message to the Japanese Government during his negotiations urging that no attack should be made on the United States, Admiral Nomura replied. "1 didn’t know the Pearl Harootir attack was going to occur so 1 couldn’t have made a recommendation against it." j Admiral Nomura admitted the feeljing that had japan not attacked Peari ’Harbour its aggressive policies might | have been earned out without war by i America because of the slowness of I the United States to plunge into combat. He said three things which precipitated the Pacific conflict were the Tripartite Pact, the Chinese problem, and the southward m w «menl Oi Japanese armies into Inao-Uhina. The newly-arrived British Ambassador (Mr. AI vary Gascoigne) told the Press that the English people were still extremely incensed against the Japanese, particularly because of the awful atrocities committed and the vile treatment of prisoners. NevcrItheless, England did not criticise shipments of -nod to Japan