EMPEROR OF JAPAN
DECLARATION OF WAR < United *ssn.—Eipi-. Tel. i'm>vrlirht) LOS ANGELES, Dec. 7 The National Broadcasting Company picked up a Tokio official radio statement that the Prime Minister, General Tojo, had a meeting with the Emperor, who later called a special meeting of the Privy Council. A message from Shanghai states that General Tojo, in a radio address to the Japanese Empire, said that the Emperor Hirohito had declared war and that the rise or fall of East Asia “depends on this fight.” The Associated Press of America says that reliable militarists in close contact with Indo-China estimated that Japanese troops within the colony total 57,000, and on Hainan Island 150,000, including a division trained for land operations and parachuters trained by the Nazis.
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Waikato Times, Volume 129, Issue 21599, 9 December 1941, Page 5
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