Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-09-05 | Page 6 | Japan's Encirclement

Japans Japan apan s E Encirclement I ement THE THE HE Japanese people seem to have developed 1 an encirclement complex They're seeing S. S enemy bombers on every island in the Pacific 1 submarines under every wave and massed tanks on every peninsula Japans Japan's latest encirclement worry is the flight of two Russian planes across the Bering sea ea from Siberia to Alaska and the United S States It is viewed by the Japanese as a ques ques- tion lion of state and international importance because because be be- cause of the possibility it foreshadows a shuttling shut shut- ing of planes back and forth between Russia and America and thus thus' indicates a scheme of northern encirclement is i in the making Poor Japan Its It's no wonder she's w worried She is in fact because of her own folly encircled encircled encircled en en- circled by a ring of hostile nations and terri tern tory From the peninsula on the north to Singapore on the south she stands completely Isolated without a single friendly power or territory save possibly helpless ThaiS Thai Thai- S land x Encirclement Yes its it's encirclement encirclement but but its it's an encirclement of Japans Japan's own contriving After all she started this encirclement game long ago when she encircled Vladivostok Russia's Russia's Russia's Rus Rus- sias sia's only Pacific port And who's been encircling encircling encircling en en- circling China on all fronts And how about the encirclement of the Philippines in a ring of mandated Pacific islands blands seized Chinese ports and islands and blackjacked Indo-Chinese Indo bases bares Now when Japan discovers that others can can- play at this game of encirclement she complains complains com corn plains that it isn't fair Well WelI what's sauce for forthe forthe forthe the goose is sauce for the gander gander and and the United States for one is tired of playing the therole therole therole role of goose for Japan in the far far east