CHANGED VIEW

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20389, 4 January 1938, Page 7

CHANGED VIEW

JAPAN AND GERMANY BITTERNEB6 AND RESENTMENT WAR MATERIAL FOR CHINA United Press Assn.—Elec. Tei. Copyright LONDON, Jan. 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 It has been replaced by bitterness and resentment, owing to the belief that Germany has not fulfilled the semi-alllance which Japan expected to follow the anti-Commun-ist pact.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 fn order to secure a substantial advantage. A GROWING FRIENDSHIP JAPAN AND ITALY INDIGNATION IN CHINA United Press Assn.—Else. Tel. Copyright SHANGHAI, Jan. 3 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. Chinese feeling is deeply aroused by the growing friendship between Italy and Japan, particularly since the withdrawal of the Italian air mission. This up more indignation than Italy’s attitude at the Brussels Conference’ and her recognition of Manchukuo. A crude home-made bomb was thrown into the garden of the Japanese Consul-General but nobody was injured.