JAPS. PROTEST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20026, 26 August 1939, Page 5

JAPS. PROTEST

GERMAN MOVE PACT WITH SOVIET ANTI-RED PACT DEAD CHANGING VIEW IN CHINA CALL FOR CO-OPERATION (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed, August 26, 11 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 25. Japan's anger against Germany is increasing. , The Japanese Army’s demand for t'he conversion of the AntiComintemiPact into a military alliance has ceased. On the contrary, Japanese newspapers agree that the AntiComintern Pact is dead. The Domei News Agency says that the Japanese Cabinet at a meeting decided ~ to protest ~t 0... .Germany, against' the Russb-'G6rman' pact Ss an infringement of the spirit and letter of the Anti-Comintern agreement. The agency adds that the new formula for dealing with the European situation was definitely being abandoned.

The official spokesman at Tokio said that prominent Japanese who had been invited to .the Nuremiburg congress would now attend in a .private capacity and not as representatives of the Government. He added that the return to Tokio from a holiday toy the British Ambassador, iSir 'Robert Craigie, reopened the iway for negotiations, but Japan’s attitude was unchanged. No Longer Allies The journal Kukomin declares that Italy and Germany are no longer Japan’s allies. Others agree that the signing of the Russian pact toy Germany admits of no excuse. The Shanghai correspondent of Reuter's Agency says that an acute shortage of ri'ee caused further serious riots. It is believed that the Japanese had intended to hold all the foreign areas to ransom toy a food blockade and proposed marching in when the situation was out of hand, tout they postponed the move owing to the GermanSoviet agreement. The idea of new blockades on the lines of thait at Tientsin is now scouted. The changed Japanese attitude tc Britain apparent in the last two days is strikingly reflected in the Japanese Army’s Shanghai newspaper Sinshunpao, which, in a leading article, expresses the hope that England will co-operate with Japan "since the situation has now radically changed.”