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BERLIN, SOME, TOKXO SPAIN JOINS ALLIANCE MUTUAL AID IN NEED REPORTED PROTOCOL By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Independent Cable Service PARIS. April 10 The well-known diplomatic writer, Madame Tabouis, in an article in the newspaper L'Oeuvre, states that a military pact was concluded on April 7 between General Franco, Germany, Italy and Japan. It was drafted in the form of a protocol interpreting the anti-Communist Pact, and provided as follows: (1) All Spanish sea and air bases to be at the disposal of tho axis for 18 months.

(2) Spanish territory to bo guaranteed by the other signatories against outside attack.

(3) The Spanisli Army to be placed under the control of a "commission of co-ordination," on which all the signatories will bo equally represented.

(4) The axis to bear the cost of constructing a Spanish Maginot Line, 550 miles long, behind the frontier of France and Spain, plus a number of strategic bases.

(5) The other signatories to support General Franco's territorial claims, including Gibraltar and French Morocco.

NAZI CAMPAIGN MORE "OPPRESSED" GERMANS SPOTLIGHT ON SCHLESWIG LONDON, April 7 The Danzig question is being allowed by the German newspapers to drop, and attention is being concentrated on other "oppressed" German minorities. Field-Marshal Goering's newspaper National Zeitung (Essen) gives prominence to an article headed: "North Schleswig Germans' Racial Struggle," which says: "In Denmark, Germans have been exposed to increasing economic pressure, but they have accepted the Fuhrer's ideas open-heartedly. The result has been that they have been dismissed from positions and subjected to miserable pinpricks by the Danish authorities and cowardly attacks by members of the anti-Fascist front.

"The Germans have maintained their racial characteristics in the most difficult of circumstances since they were torn from the Reich in 1920."

It is interesting to note that the Danish minority in North Germany has recently frequently complained that the Nazi authorities have been putting pressure on them to send their children to German schools and that poor relief has been refused to Danish parents who persist in sending their children to Danish-language schools.