Tokyo, June 26.
Unless Germany won within two or three months the Soviet campaign would prove very costly, Mr. John Scott, former Moscow correspondent of the News Chronicle", declared today in Tokyo. Mr. Scott recently was expelled from the Soviet Union.
If the Soviet Union could hold out until October November, - said Mr. Scott, Germany's campaign would be threatened with failure as the winter in Russia was bitterly cold and transportation and eonimunications lines would be frozen over—Domei. pointed out, Japan has felt comparatively safe in the Tripartite Axis because neither Germany nor Moly were in a position to menace Japan immediately. With German planes and warships poised on the Pacific "coast of Russia, however, Japan would find herself in a changed position, military observers believ With Germany as a neighbour on the Pacific, Japan would be confronted. by a "dynamic" nation, tion "on the march" and presim~ Jably with an eye on the Netherlands Fast Indies, instend of the Russian Beer with whom the Japanese have recently learned to associate on fairly friendly terms,
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