GERMANY AND JAPAN

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 46, 18 November 1936, Page 11

GERMANY AND JAPAN

Anti-Communist Treaty Imminent Shanghai, November 10. A very strict censorship has been imposed in Japan on news that a treaty between Germany and Japan against Communism is reported to be imminent. despite denials, The Shanghai correspondent of “The Times’’ says: “According to advice from Tokio the reported GermanJapanese agreement is less than a formal alliance, but more than a mere declaration against Communism. The following is forecast: The purely defensive character of the agreement will be emphasised and its purpose is to unite the anti-Communistic Powers against the spread of Soviet influences. It will probably provide for technical collaboration between the German and Japanese- armies, also for German assistance toward Japanese rearmament. “The agreement is not directed against China. On the contrary, Japanese policy is to secure China’s adhesion.

“Italy, it is added, will probably adhere to the agreement, either directly or through her agreenient with Germany. The Japanese, it is said, originally hoped to include Britain in an anti-Soviei front, but Britain refused to join in any project, dividing the world into Fascist and Communist blocs.”