MOVE IN JAPAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 9

MOVE IN JAPAN

ITALY AND GERMANY

MEDIATION IN CHINA

SUGGESTIONS DISCUSSED

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received August 4, 11.10 a.m.)

ROME, August 3

The Ambassadors in Rome lid Berlin are conferring with a view to discussing the possibilities of a military alliance with Italy and Germany, and suggestions of Italo-German mediation with the Chinese generalissimo. (Received August 4, 11.20 a.m.) TOKIO, August 3. After a lengthy conference the Japanese war leaders drew up a report to present to the Inner Cabinet. It is believed that they are demanding a military alliance with Italy and Germany. Meanwhile the Anglo-Japanese conference marks time, and Sir Robert Craigie is awaiting instructions. The Press complains of British insincerity by consulting France and America, since the question concerns Britain and Japan alone. It adds that if the British show sincerity antiBritish demonstrations will automatically cease. In any case, there is no reason to complain, in view of the anti-Japanese movement in England last year when the Japanese Embassy was insulted and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Lytton addressed demonstrations in the Albert Hall. The naval spokesman said that the blockade of the Pearl River will be lifted shortly because of the completion of the military operations. The blockade of the Tientsin concession has again been tightened. Each dairy is permitted to send in daily a maximum of a hundred bottles of milk. Residents of the concession returning from shopping are queued up and inspected. They are allowed to take in a small amount of foodstuffs.