GERMAN PERFIDY.
THE AMERICAN-JAP. INTRIGUE. (Received 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. St an American luncheon to the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Frank Powell, chairman, said that when the Mexican dispatch in which Germany expressed the hope of involving America and Japan m hostilities, was captured in Count Bernstorff's luggage at Halifax, the American authorities refused to believe such perfidy possible until Bernstorff's papers supplied the proof. Baron Chinda, the Ambassador, replying, said that he was personally aware that Germany had long carried out an intrigue to cause trouble between America and Japan. He laughed to scorn Continental rumours of a secret Japanese-German treaty.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 246, 15 October 1917, Page 5
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