STRIFE IN CHINA
SECRET AGREEMENT CENTRAL GOVERNMENT PLANNED JAPAN TAKES OVER ISLAND (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) CHUNGKING, April 6 Details are published of an alleged secret agreement between the Prime Minister of Japan, Baron Hiranuma, and Mr Wang Ching-wei, under which an endeavour will bo made to cut off China from the Soviet, and French Ir.do-China and establish Mr Wang Ching-wei as head of a central govAfiler that" he would oppose Marshal Chiang Kai-shek and negotiate for peace in accordance with Prince Konove’s terms. LONDON, April 6 The si administration of Spratley Island has been given to Formosa by Japan, says a message from Tokio. The Japanese Admiralty recalls that Japan has been working the phosphates on the island since 1017. In the House of Commons to-day the Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr R. A. Butler, stated that a protest against the Japanese occupation of Spratley Island was primarily a matter for France, as sovereign claimant. Be agreed that the island was of great strategic importance.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20775, 8 April 1939, Page 4
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