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JAPANESE DIPLOMATIC SWITCH?

Anxious To Avoid Conflict With United States

JAPAN'S Hint That Hitler U.S. SHIP Has Changed His

PEACE TERMS!

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Mr. Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State, yester- day

rejected Japanese!

feelers for joint mediation in the war and reiterated there will be no peace as long as the totalitarians pursue military conquest.

Peace terms, published in the Japanese Foreign Office organ, "Times-Ad- vertiser," give the Axis complete power in Europe,¦ Africa and the Far East.

THEY ARE REGARDED AS TANTAMOUNT TO UNCONDI- TIONAL SURRENDER AND ARE TERMED IN WASHINGTON "PREPOSTEROUS."

Mr. Hull told his press con ference he would not give the proposals the dignity of official status but took the occasion un mistakeably to reaffirm the

United States attitude to aggree. Fors.international News Ser-

vice.

PAN-AMERICAN TO FLY TO SINGAPORE

(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL ')

Because of "exist- conditions ing world

and the importance of the East Indies and Malaya to the United States," the Civil Aeronautics Author- ity in Washington yes- terday authorised Pan-American mercial flying tween Manila and Singapore for five years. International News Service.

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GERMAN-SOVIET

RUPTURE DANGER?

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

THE DREAM OF the possibility of a Ger- man-Russian rupture has moved a step clos- er to reality with the Russian charge that German troops have landed in Finland.

Attitude

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)

STOPPED

Nazis Taken

A HIGH JAPANESE AUTHORITY IN LON-Off By Cruiser

DON DECLARED YESTERDAY THAT THE NEXT MAJOR JAPANESE DIPLOMATIC MOVE CAN BE EXPECTED IN AN ATTEMPT TO IM- PROVE RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED

STATES AND REACH AN UNDERSTANDING ON THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE IN THE PACIFIC.

Japan is increasingly reluctant to enter the war and is seeking a guarantee against the development of, further wars, the author- ity said.

Mr. Matsuoka “has not been unqualifiedly suc-

Hugh Johnson

cessful" after his return Not Wanted

to Tokyo, it was added,

Japanese circles in London even discreetly hint that in a sudden emergency Japan might alde with the United States.

Berlin is reported 10 have changed its attitude to Japan.

AFTER REPEATEDLY

[SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"]

President Roosevelt has declin-

eu to re-appoint the columnist, General

Hugh Johnson, as a

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

A Canadian cruiser on Tuesday halted the Orient-bound "President Garfield" a few hundred miles east of Honolulu and removed a small band of German aviators on board the American liner. The aviators — Ewald Flesch, Werner Nuemar, Hans Sandamm and Guenther Katse were en route to join the Luftwaffe.

They sailed on Friday from had San Francisco where they been stranded almost a yoar after quitting jobs In a German airline in South America. Japanese steamship lines refus- ed them a passage and when their visas expired they were offered the alternatives of a passage on an American vessel or return to South America.

Pool To Be Created

Brigadier in the United States Plans for the creation of a pool Army, it was disclosed in Wash-of ships by President Roosevelt ington yesterday.

was announced in Washington yesterday by Admiral Land.

Officia s state that re-appoint- URG-ment of reserve officers are res- ING TOKYO TO START THE tricted to those whose employ- SOUTHWARD DRIVE, THE NA-ment in the service is required.— ZIS NOW DO NOT WANT JA- International News Service. PAN TO ENTER THE WAR AS THEY WOULD REQUIRE GER- MAN SUPPLIES AND OTHER ASSISTANCE-I N TERNA- TIONAL NEWS SERVICE.

Standing Fear

Behind other obstacles to Ja- pan's southward expansion pro- gramme,

"Manchester says the Guardian," in an editorial, is the that the United States would not allow her to make a triumphant war in the western Pacific, crushing the Dutch East Indies and attacking the British position from the Far East to the Red Sea.

Optimists in London rushed to the con- clusion that the announcement was an indi- rect warning but even conservatives regard standing fear it as an indication that Moscow is increasing- ly perturbed that Hitler may be preparing for a drang nach osten.

BERLIN THREATS

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL"}

A Berlin spokesman yes- terday said that all ships entering the war zone will be torpedoed. He referred to President Roosevelt's

Authentic Finn sources in Lon-

Hence, a Japanese writer's sug- don say that German troops land- gestion that Mr. Matsuoka should now fly to see President Roose- velt.

an

ed in Finland as a result of urgent request from Field-Mar- shal Mannerheim, who believes Russia plans a full occupation of | Finland to safeguard Leningrad.

A Good Thing Recalling Mr. Cordell Hull's These sources say an earlier words on January 15, that "Japan. request was refused by Berlin has been actuated from the start for fear of war with, Rusala but by broad and ambitious plans for the Nazis finally agreed to a establishing herself in a dominat- token "force on condition that ing position in the entire region It the troops were transferred to of the western Pacific Norway In the event of a Rus- should be manifest to every per -alan protest, -

son that such a programme for subjugation and ruthless exploita- tion by one country of nearly one half of the population of the

ficance, importance and, concern to every other nation, wherever located," the “Guardian” .: com-. ments" "Yes," yes, it would be a

suoka saw the President."

It is believed the statement by plan for the extension of "Pravda" will end the matter tem-

the United States patrol. porarily International News Ser-world, is a matter of intense signi-

Whether President Roosevelt

intends to send his ships to the

war zones is not our concern, but

vice,

It will not change our policy," said ther any one recognises the Ger- | good thing after all if Mr. Mat-

GAIETE Reuter.

the spokesman.

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