Tokyo, Jan. 10.
The Cabinet today approved a plan for strengthening Japan's alr defences. The plan calls for priority supply of materials and funds which will be given for the construction of defence facilities. The plan was jointly mapped out by the War, Navy end Home Ministers.
Tleutenant-General Hideki Tejo, War Minister, in explaining the plan to the Cabinet, said that its enforce ment was urgently necessary account of Japan's high vulnerability to alr attacks and also the "current international situation,"—United Press, Praised The confidence of the British people in their country's final victory. and the high moral of London residents were stressed by a number of Japanese evacuees from the British capital, who arrived in Japan on the Fushirai Maru, when they were interviewed by Japenese newspaper correspondents, 'Three reasons why it is practically impossible to think that, Britain, wil collapse in the near future are' the steady moral of, the British people, the economic strength of the counts and the fact that Britain still cent the seas, according to Mr. " Tokuo Ideno, managing-director of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha offices in London, The reason for the high moral of the British people, said Mr. Tdeno, an be attributed mainly to the stolid, composed and self-possessed character lof the British, "The economic stability which Britain still seems to-maint the added, Is due to the speedy and effective ' restrictions" undertaken simultaneously with the outbreak of the war, and also to the success of the British convoy system, Not Bleeding to Death Asked whether. it was true that Great Britain was being slowly bled to death by the intensive "German bombings. Mr. Ideno quoted a state nient made by Mr. Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, that would take ten years to destroy halt London by bombs.
However, he added, this could only be said in regard to buildings and does not mean that the people of [London could stand the mental strain of the raids that long, On the other hand, Mr, Ideno sai, the British Government i fully preparing plans $0 mo\ fant Government offices to of London and algo into th it necessary.
Regarding the bombing of British ships at sea, Mr. Tdeno declared that
whicn bring fo Bngland are salt penta' of th ships mink and that, moreover, Britain. bultding, buying and chartering ships fester than they are destroyed by German raiders, This fs another reason why Britain ig sti rich in materials, Mr, Tdeno
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