| Show Dap Scouting Parties Move Moye T Toward oward India Australia Doomed Fleet of Allies Gone Boasts T Tojo oio oioI Chinese Report Repulse of Attacks By Nips on Eastern Easter front Front Tokyo Renews Axis Support Pledge By Associated Press officered Japanese-officered scouting parties were reported moving from west Burma toward the India frontier frontier town of Chitta gong Wednesday even as Japans Japan's premier General Hideki Tojo threat threat- I ened both India and Australia 1 with invasion 1 j Lieutenant General Sir Noel j i Beresford commander of British forces de defending the Ganges Ganges Gan Gan- India delta said enemy scouts were attempting to test the defenses of Indias India's northeast coastal area Jap Attacks Repulsed Meanwhile the Chinese high Mh command announced that renewed Japanese assaults on provisional provisional pro pro- visional capital of Chinas China's east coast province of had been thrown back and that Japanese troops had been killed Ina in ina ina a single days day's fighting for the stra strategic tra tra- city In Tokyo Premier Tojo asserted boastfully that the naval forces in defense of Australia have disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis appeared with nothing standing now to defend that country before the onslaught of Qt the imperial Japanese forces Evidently a fishing expedition in quest of of l information General Tojos Tojo's repetition of Japans Japan's claim cu of victory in the Coral sea battle described by allied allied- accounts accounts- was accompanied by a renewed pledge l de of Jap Japanese nes support for the axis Japan will do her utmost to contribute her sh share re as as' as the partner partner part part- ner net of Germany Italy he told the Japanese parliament Inthe in inthe inthe the presence of Emperor Hirohito Discounts Russ War Sar But But as if to dispel the idea that Japan would help Germany by attacking attacking attacking at at- tacking Russia Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo carefully explained explained explained ex ex- ex- ex Relations between Japan and the soviet union have undergone no change even after the outbreak of war in greater East Asia Enemy countries will I presume presume presume pre pre- sume intensify their efforts to alienate Japan and the soviet union but there is no chance for such intrigues to bear fruit so long as the soviet union firmly maintains the attitude mentioned In addition to his threat against Australia General Tojo warned India that as long as British and American troops remain in India Japan is inflexibly determined to annihilate them He said Australia was now helplessly expecting Japans Japan's attack attack at at- tack after the battle baUle in the Coral Continued on Pa Page e Five Column Seven Jap Scouting Parties Reported Moving Toward India Border Continued from Past Page One sea wiped away naval na units put I up for the defense of Australia I While Japans Japan's war leaders thus boasted of future conquests allied fighting men scored new successes against the invaders In on flung far-flung land and sky fronts On Chinas China's east cast coast In the critical province theater theater thea thea- ter Generalissimo Chiang Kai Kai- shek's armies were reported to have started an offensive in an attempt to hamstring Japanese columns storming at the gates of I a provisional pro capita capital cap cap- ital ita 1 Chinese dispatches dispatch said General Genera Chiang's troops were attacking inthe in inthe inthe the Hashing Kashing sector miles below Shanghai behind the bases from which the Japanese drive against was launched Far to the west In the Burma- Burma China war zone the Chinese position position I tion along the Burma road was reported sharply improved as Chinese Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese troops continued to push the invaders back from the river and American Flying Tigers Tig Tig- Tigers Tig-i Tig ers blasted Japanese bases repeatedly repeatedly re re- re without meeting tion American airmen bombed the Japanese three times within 48 hours Inflicting great damage on oa the enemy's advanced ad bases Latest information indicated that the Japanese Japanese troops In Burma may now be planning an invasion in of India rather than a drive up the Burma road Into China |
