Evening star., 1942-03-15

Hitler World Conquest
Scheme Reported
Pressed on laps
Russio and EneIond Are
Pictured as First
Enemies of Axis

IHeI1IeS VI AAIS
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, March 14.-Adolf Hit
ler Is insistently pressing on his
Japanese allies a grandiose scheme
of world conquest and promising as
reward for their collaboration that
their empire may be so far extend
ed as to include part of Africa, a
foreign diplomatic source said to-
day.
AS in Germany, where one sec
ton Of military and industrial opin-
ion thinks German conquests have
gone far enough, there is a division
OF opinion in Japan, however, and
some influential leaders there be-
lieve the time has almost arrived
70 concentrate on holding what has
heen gained.
The foreign source, who said his
information was cleaned from diplo-
msric listening posts and conf
dental agents throughout Europe
and the Far East, said HitlerS plan
involves two huge nutcracker at
tackS on Russia and the India area
and series of subsidiary ma
neuverS.
Believed Behind SatO's Selection.
He said all reporters of the plan
felt thai this proposal was behind
Japan's strangely Kurusu-like ap-
pointment of Naotake Sato to as
sure Russian of her peaceful in
tentionS."
Sato, the new Ambassador to
Russia, has a role similar to that
of Kurusu, VINO was sent to Wash
mgton to negotiate while Japan was
planning her treacherous attack on
Pearl Harbor, no declared.
The same plan also is back of the
dispatch OF Japanese military mis-
sion to Madagascar, the big French
island in the Indian Ocean $50 miles
OH the East African coast.
Despite the denials Of Vichy. the
informant said he had absolute veri-
flcatlon that the Japanese mission
had arrived in Madagascar. pre-
sumably to high-pressure the French
into granting naval and ar bases.
Moreover. he declared, there are
unconfirmed reports that a number
OF other Axis agents have ar
rived in Madagascar from Japanese
occupied French Indo- China. where
Vichy capitulation in 1910 paved he
way for Japanese conquest of Singa-
pore.
Outline of Plan.
The diplomatic reports outline
Hitlers plan as follows:
l. Japan to advance from Burma
to the attack on India, and use bases
in Madagascar for further invasion
of East Africa and to cut the United
Nations supply lines around Africa
to the Red Sea, Persian Gulf ana
India.
2. Japan to attack Russia when
the time is ripe" and help Germany
force her into separate peace, per-
maps by autumn.
3. Hitler would direct great
Mediterranean offensive, in which
the italian Navy would be forced
to come out and take part, to smash
through the Near East and ioin
hands with Japan in the Indian
Ocean.
4. Hitler also would force Vichy
to supply Marshal Edwin Rommels
Axis army in Libya to aid this
offensive and force Vichy to hand
over her battleships for raiding ex-
petitions in the Atlantic to keep
the British and American Navies
busy there while Japan is push
ing conquest in the Indian Ocean.
Beyond these immediate plans,
the source added, Hitler is disclos-
ing to the japanese his dream of
finally concluding the war by in
vading England and smashing Ice
land.
Move on Americas.
Then, he tells the JapaneSe-Who
may be suspicious of the plan, be-
cause it involves letting the United
States build up strength from Pa
ciflc bases while all this is going on
Germany and Japan together will
begin applying a military. economic
and political stranglehold on the
Americas.
To reinforce his argument that
Russia and England are the first
enemies Of the Axis, Hitler is hold
ing out to the Japanese the tempt
ing spoils of East and South Africa
while Germany takes Northwest
Africa, it was said.
A japanese party headed by 1t
Gen. Seishiro Itagaki, former War
Minister, believes, however, Japan
should stop her conquests as soon as
the Netherlands Indies and Burma
are mopped up and the north coast
OF Australia occupied, it was re-
ported. This party feels that Japan
then would be in position to win a
peace which would give her perma.
nent possession of Indo China,
Thailand, the Netherlands Indies
and Burma.
But a group headed by 1t. Gen.
Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of
Singapore and now the commander
in the Philippines. wants to continue
japanese expansion regardless of
risk and is listening to Hitler's
tempting arguments for the over
running of India and part of Africa