JAPS. BETTER WITH GERMANY

Northern Advocate, 4 January 1938, Page 5

JAPS. BETTER WITH GERMANY

(Received 10 a.m.)

LONDON, January 3,

The Tokio correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph’' says the enthusiastic feeling of friendship toward Germany which swept the Japanese when the hostilities in China started, has almost disappeared.

It has been replaced by bitterness and resentment, owing to the belief that Germany has not fulfilled the semi-alliance which Japan expected to follow the anti-Communist pact.

On the contrary, Germany is plentifully supplying the Chinese with munitions. The Japanese Government is confident that 60 per cent, of the war material passing through Hongkong originates from Germany, and is not British.

The growing mistrust of Germany is also due to Herr Hitler’s European policy, as it is believed that Berlin would not hesitate to sacrifice Japan in order to secure a substantial advantage. Amity With Italy.

Chinese feeling is deeply aroused by the growing friendship between Italy and Japan, particularly since the withdrawal of the Italian Air Mission. This stirred up more indignation than Italy’s attitude at the Brussell’s Conference and her recognition of Manchukuo.

A crude home-made bomb was thrown into the garden of the Japanese Counsul-General, but nobody was injured. An investigation indicates that a bomb which exploded on Saturday near Colonel Andreini, commander of the Italian Savoy Grenadiers, may have been actually intended for him and not for the premises—a Japanese mill—where he was inspecting the Italian troops.