JAPAN AND AXIS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 204, 29 July 1939, Page 9

JAPAN AND AXIS

MOVE FOR ADHERENCE.

DISCUSSIONS IN ROME

NEW GERMAN PACT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 29. 10.5 a.in. BERLIN, July 28. Germany and Japan have initialled an economic agreement, increasing their mutual trade. The terms are not disclosed. Rome reports that a Japanese mission, headed by Mr Terauchi and Admiral Osumi. is discussing with Signor Mussolini the possible Japanese adherence to the RomeBerlin Axis.

The mission will visit the Nuremburg Congress, after which it will proceed to Berlin and Romo for political and military discussions.

RETALIATORY MOVE.

OFFSET TO U.S. ACTION

Received July 29, 10.-to a.m. LONDON, July 28. The Times Berlin correspondent says the Germau-Japanese trade treaty is expected to largely compensate for the Joss of trade after the termination of the American Treaty. The Germans hope this demonstration of the solidity of the anti-Comintern countries will offset the American action, which is considered to be not due'to domestic policies and to be unjustified by existing American-Jiapanese relations, but is intended to demonstrate tho solidarity of the Democracies. The Press, despite English and American disclaimers, declares that America, by a previous agreement, has taken up the cudgels when Britain, for strategical reasons, has laid them’ down.

The German-Japane.se Treaty operates from October 1 and aims at extending trade, partly by means of German credit to Japan.

TREATY WITH ENGLAND.

POSSIBILITY OF DENOUNCEMENT

Received Julv 29. 9.35 a.m. LONDON, July 28

It is officially stated that the possibility of the denouncement of the Anglo-Japanese Trade Treaty of 1911 should not ho excluded, though at present there is no desire to prejudice the success of the Tokio negotiations.

NO MOVE YET.

JAPAN AND NEW TREATY

TOKIO, July 2S

The conference discussing Japan s demand for tlio forfeiture of the Chinese silver bullion in the 9 iontsin Concession adjourned until July 31 to allow consideration of unsettled points. Tho Foreign Office spokesman said tho conference was progressing smoothly in a friendly atmosphere. Mr Arita is reported to have told Cabinet he intended to await further developments before taking action over the United States’s abrogation of the commercial treaty. Japan does not intend in the -meantime to initiate a move for a new treaty.

“SHOT ACROSS BOWS.”

VIEW OF ABROGATION

LONDON, July 28

The Daily Telegranb’s Washington correspondent says that, despite Mr Cordell Hull’s phrasing of the explanation of the abrogation of the commercial treaty with Japan, the purpose o-f tho denouncement is plain. It is a shot across the hows... The Daily Express points out that America is the onlv country in tho world able .single-handed to impose sanctions on Japan, as she supplies the bulk of the .oil for the Japanese mechanised army and air force, steel for the shipyards and arms works, arrnv trucks and ’plane parts, and also buvs a lar an na't of the Jana nose silk exports (£17.600.000 in 1938), cotton goods, canned foodstuffs and pottery. SOUTHERN LANDING.

CHUNG SHAN INVASION

HONG KONG. July 28

Residents to-day heard a terrific warship bombardment preceding the landing of Japanese on the farther side of the Pearl River delta, 60 miles distant, in a new effort to invade the Chungslian district. Marines landed and penetrated to Fuyungshnn and Wnngehjawai, and are now approaching Shckki.