JAPAN AND GERMANY

Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 4

JAPAN AND GERMANY

CORDIAL RELATIONSHIP SIMILARITY OF PROBLEMS. LONDON, May 9. Further evidence of the cotdial development of the relationship between Germany and Japan is ?' vcn by the visit of the Japanese training squadron, says the Berlin correspondent of iho Matsushita, commander of the squadron, and his officers, who are visiting Berlin, were received with unusual cordiality by President Von Hindenburg, Herr Hitler, Baron Von Neurath, and General Goemig. Admiral Matsushita’s speech on GermanJapanese association, which wAs given wide prominence in tile Press, reiterated the recent note ill several Japanese diplomatic statements. He declared : “ Our Japanese Fatherland today is approximately in the same position as was Germany before the war. Both must face a multitude of intern national difficulties and work for peace, which, however, must be a peace oi equal rights.” , Inspired German commentators slate that .1 a jinn is fighting for a space to live, the country being too small for its people. Therefore, needing wider markets Japan is conflicting with the interests of other Powers, hut the conflict does not demand a warlike solution,