PACT RENEWED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 280, 26 November 1941, Page 7

PACT RENEWED

FURTHER FIVE YEARS Axis Powers And Satellites Sign Anti-Comintern Treaty United Press Association.—Copyright. Rec. 11 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 25. The German news agency announced that Ribbentrop presided on behalf of Hitler when the antiComintern Pact was formally extended for a further five years. Representatives of Italy, Japan, Spain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Croatia, Rumania and Slovakia announced adherence to the pact.

Ribbentrop read a telegram from the "Chinese National Government'' pledging adherence to the pact. The Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Hosima, in a speech after the ceremony, declared that the new order in the Far East would have to be reconstructed in the spirit of the antiComintern Pact.

Spain was referred to for the first time by the British Broadcasting Corporation to-day as an Axis-controlled country.

The Office of Export Control announced to-day that all export licenses to Algeria, French Morocco and French Tunisia have been revoked, and also all licenses for the exportation of petroleum products to Spain and its possessions and to Tangier.

The office did not explain the order, but it is believed to be part of the general policy of keeping American products from falling into the hands of the German Army.

The Free French delegation in New York has made public a letter from President Roosevelt authorising United States lease-or-lend aid to the Free French forces by the retransfer of materials through Britain or her Allies, and adding: "I hereby find that the defence of any French territory under the control of the French volunteer forces is vital to the defence of the United States."