TO REARM CHINA?

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 217, 12 September 1936, Page 9

TO REARM CHINA?

JAPANESE ANXIETY.

Reports of a secret barter agreement between China ancl Germany, by which the latter would sxi|>plv large quantities of munitions to the Chinese Governhnent. appear to bo causing nervousness in Tokyo. General von Beichenau, one of Germany's leading soldiers, has arrived in Nanking and is belie\ed to be negotiating details of the deal. Renter's correspondent in Tokyo reports that messages received there from Japanese sources in Shanghai allege that !an agreement for a £(>.000.000 deal was signed last month in Berlin. It is beI lieved that the Chinese will supply Geri many in return with tungsten (necesi sarv for the manufacture of guns) and j vegetable oik. j The Japanese authorities are said to have been informed of the negotiations, I and to have tacitly approved them on j condition tha.t equipment of the most ! modern type was not supplied to the 1 Chinese army. On the other hand, a ! message from the Domei (Japanese) agency from Tokyo says that both the Japanese Foreign Office and War Office are watching the negotiations closely. They are said to fear that the Germans may supply the Chinese with modern howitzers, field guns, heavy tanks and other arms which could be used by the Nanking Government to reI sist Japanese pressure in North China. /•*!■' ..