Tokyo, Mar. 21.
A thinly veiled warning that attempts by third Powers to halt Japan's designs in China will result in a push into te South Seas area was given here by the well-known writer, Mr. Shinichi Hasegawa, in the current issue of the magazine "Seikai Ohrai."
Mr, Hasegawa is a part time employee. of the Foreign Office as well as being a free lance magazine and newspaper writer. The Foreign Office, however, has disclaimed any responsibility for his views which appear in the "Seikai", a magazine widely read among intelligent classes.
"It is clear that the United States and, European Powers are trying in various ways to curb Japan's expansion toward the south as a natural consequence of its control of the more: important parts -of China," Nr. Hasegawa says, "Japan wishes to expand southward by peaceful and amicable means. But if foreign Powers are to form an encircling bloc about Japan or if serious effects of the European war are felt in this area then of course Japan could not remain. passive and inactive. Japan would be compelled to eliminate all such menaces to the peace of the Far East."
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