Evening star., 1940-11-28
Increasing Sentiment
In Indies Arouses
Japan S Anger
Foreign Minister'S
Protest on Reported
Incidents Likely
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, Nov. 28.-Foreign Minis
ter YosIke Matsuoka probably will
make strong written representations
to the Netherlands Minister In Toxic
on the basis of oficial reports which
nave confirmed a series of anti
Japanese incidents" in the Neither
lands Indies, a Foreign ONCE
spokesman said today.
Details Of the official reports were
not disclosed, but it was indicated
they parallel closely Japanese press
accounts reporting alleged incidents,
including beatings Of Japanese resi-
dents in the Indies and defilement
Of the Japanese flag.
Observers pondered the possibility
that the outburst of official and press
Indignation might be the forerunner
of new and stronger Japanese de-
mands for economic concessions In
the Dutch islands.
The japanese press, with notably
similar phraseology, had reported
the governments anger against the
Dutch colonial administration fol-
lowing discovery" of strong anti
Japanese sentiment.
Sentiment Growing.
The papers agreed that the at
titude of the islanders had worsened
since Japan joined the Rome-Berlin
axis in a military alliance.
Observers weighed the possibility
of stronger economic demands on
the East Indies (Which japanese
leaders have pictured as part Of the
Greater East Asia" sphere where
Japan wants at least economic
leadership.
The japanese already have gained
a military and economic foothold in
another Oriental colony of Eu-
ropean power-French Indo-C China
holding air and military bases in
the northern part of the colony
They have been reported demanding
extension of their occupation to
Saigon and Southern Indo- China.
The Foreign Office announced to-
day that trade negotiations between
Japan and French Indo-China
hitherto carried on in the French
colony, would be transferred next
month to Toxic at the request OF
the French.
Ambassador Hajime Matsumiya
head of the japanese delegation to
Indo-China, will return to take part
and French Ambassador Charles
Arsene Henry will head French
delegation which will include "a
officials from Indo-China.
Japan is demanding important
economic concessions. Several con-
versations at Hanoi were said to
have clarified the positions" Of the
two parties.
Domei. the Japanese news agency,
meanwhile, reported riot OF natives
at Cholon, near Saigon, chief port
of Southern Indo-C CHINA, in which
a French plantation owner was as
saulted. Troops and police restored
order and arrested a number OF
rioters, Domei said.
Impatience Increases.
Concerning the situation in the
Netherlands Indies it was said that
Japanese impatience was growing
over delay in commercial negotia-
tions. Commerce Minister Ichizo
Kobayashi returned recently from
a mission to Batavia. Asked If
Kobayashi would return for new
conferences. foreign office spokes-
man recently said, IF he does not,
some one else will"
A japanese shipping magnate,
Koichiro Ishihara, says in an article
in the magazine Kaizo that nothing
could be more welcome to the yellow
and black races than that the whites
should destroy each other" and
argued that Germany. if victorious,
should give the Netherlands Indies
to Japan as a reward for joining
the axis pact.
A Domei dispatch today from
Bangkok, Thailand Siam, quoted
the Thailand defense ministry as
asserting that five light bombers
from French Indo-China had
dropped two bombs at Nakon Panom,
on the eastern frontier, wounding
several Thai soldiers.
The statement said Thai pursuit
planes drove of the bombers.
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