JAPPU-GERMAN RELATIONS

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXV, Issue 8902, 9 April 1936, Page 3

JAPPU-GERMAN RELATIONS

REVISED REPORTS OF MILITARY ALLIANCE AGREEMENT QUESTIONED Australian and N.Z Cable. LONDON, April 7. "The Times’ Berlin correspondent says that although revived reports of a German-Japanese military alliance are not taken very seriously in wellinformed circles, the possibility is not excluded that the excellent relations between the two Powers have led to an understanding that they should at least not hamper each other in diplomatic or other undertakings. Questions of mutual support in wartime may have been discussed, but it is emphasised that neither country has anything to gain by embroiling itself automatically in disputes to which the policies of the other may lead. The Foreign Ministry denies the existence of any such agreement, and tiie feeling is that if one exists it has been arranged on the German side by the- Nazi party rather than by the Wilhelmstrasse.