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JAPAN'S LAST STEP ON ROAD OF PROVOCATION "Times" Warning On ANOTHER BRITON Soviet

New Situation

"THE TIMES” IN A LEADING ARTICLE YESTERDAY, DIS- CUSSING THE CASE OF JAPAN IN RELATION TO THE NEW TRI-PARTITE PACT, SAYS THAT WHILE THE MOTIVES OF NAZI DIPLOMACY ARE TRANSPARENT, REFLECTION = _HAS DONE LITTLE TO ELUCIDATE THE QUESTION OF WHAT JAPAN CAN HAVE HOPED TO GAIN FROM CLOSER ASSOCIA- TION WITH THE AXIS,

BRITAIN'S

Japanese statesmen have no doubt found it plausible to argue that if Germany defeated Britain and immobilised the United States by the threat of intervention in the Americas,

SHARP NOTE Japan would remain undisputed mistress of

the Pacific.

TO RUMANIA The familiar process of wishful thinking may

have made it possible for them to believe that Ger- A further Note regard-nany had it in her power to achieve those results. ing the unexplained de- But, granted these assumptions.- tention of five British sub-Japan was already drawing every advantage open to her from the jects was lodged yesterday state of war in Europe. by the British Minister in Germany, was already making Bucharest, Sir Reginald and was bound to make, Hoare.

The Note demands information when the arrested persons will be released or, alternatively, the exact nature of the charges against them, and when it is pro- posed they will be tried..

In the meantime, all is mystery, as both the police and the fron Guard continue to deny knowledge of the arrest of Mr. A. Miller, ad- ministrator: of the Astra-Romana Oil Co.-Router.

PURCHASE TAX DATE ANNOUNCED

a su- preme effort to crush Britain and neutralise America.

KIIDNAPPED IN RUMANIA

Another British sub- ject has been kid- napped in Rumania, it was.stated in Buchar- est yesterday.

Percy Clark, 60-year- old head of a British engineering firm at Ploesti, was taken from his room in a Bucharest hotel by three youths in civilian clothes who forced him to accompany them to an unknown destinationReuter.

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H.M.S. SAPPHO SUNK BY A MINE The Board of Admiralty an- has been accompanied by do: Inounced yesterday that HM. yacht liberate provocation towards Sappho (Commander Wreland, Western Powers, "The R.N.R.) has been sunk, probably Times" adds the pact now con- by an enemy mine: Next of kin of cluded with the Axis marks a casualties liave been informed.- further step and almost the last Reuter. step. on this path.

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She cannot do more than shemitted that the caution charac- It must now be regretfully ad- la doing, even to please. Japan. teristic of Japanese foreign policy There is nothing, in fact, to in- in the past has been abandoned. crease her capacity or to enable her to intensify her military of- 3 fort.

Future Mortgaged The country where the pact, has Taking The Plunge been received with the most un-

reserved satisfaction is Japan has plunged upon

China, course fraught with incalculable that Japan, by deliberately court- a whose far-seeing rulers believe consequences to herself, for the ing the hostility of Great Britain, advantages, even on the shortest the British Dominions and views, appear negligible.

the United States, has fatally mort- gaged her future and involved Like Germany In Japan could, if she had chosen Germany's coming defeat.--Reu- Europe, herself in the consequences of the path of peaceful cooperation! ter. and partnership, have played a predominant and respected role

in the economic development of China.....

Like Germany, Japanese lacked the necessary self-confidence and self-restraint for this task and plunged recklessly down: the

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The Purchase Tax path of ruthlessness and domina- WITNESSES

tion.

AMERICAN TANKS

FOR BRITAIN Two dozen American tanks, first instalment of 200 over-age tanks being supplied to Britain, crossed the border into Canada yesterday.--Reuter.

Policy In Far East

pact.

The Soviets have not announced their willing- ness to enter into a aggression

with China on condition that China is split up into spheres of interest.

This was the categorical statement elicited by: Reuter In- Moscow In reply to an enquiry regarding the report circulating earlier.

"But

The official statement. added, however, that the Soviet policy of good relations would not ex-· clude the possibility of a rap- prochement with Japan, provid- ed, as M. Molotov stated “rin · August, there was good will on both sides.-Reutér,

EIRE BOMBED IN "ERROR"

The German Government will express its regret to the Elre Gov ernment for having "erroneously dropped bombs on Irish territor and will offer to pay compensa→ tion, according to the official Nazi news agency, yesterday. S

The agency stated investigation had shown the bombs really were launched from an aircraft which, however, had lost its way!:,

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