SIGNATURE OF PACT

Taranaki Daily News, 30 September 1940, Page 7

SIGNATURE OF PACT

GERMAN ANN OUN CEMENT London, Sept. 27. The German announeement that a 10ycar pact between Italy, Japan and Germany had been signed said that Herr Hitler, Count Ciano. Herr von Ribbentrop and the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Kurusu, attended the signing. The three last- ■ named read the agreement aloud in their respective languages. Herr von Ribbentrop declared that the pact was "a military alliance between the three most powerful Powers in the world. Anyone who disturbs the world's peace will feel the might of 250.000,000 people. "After Germany and Italy had succeeded in a partial restoration of their rights warmongers from a Jewish capitalistic dcmocracy forced war on Germany. This Power is now collapsing. The struggle we are now waging is not directed against cny . people but is specifically against the existence ofan international plot." BIoc of Common Interests. ' "The pact proclaims Italian. German and Japanese collaboration. It is the creation of a bloc of common interests. It aims at the reconstrucbon of peace throughout the world. Any country which joins the alliance will have a voice in the redistribution of territory after the war." Couna Ciano and Mr. Kurusu made short speeches welcoming the alliance, which is semi-officially interpreted at Berlin to mean that the Axis Powers and Japan agreed to call a halt to all plans to extend and prolong the war. Thus the three Powers have contributed to world peace and the great cause of establishing a just, permanent and peaceful order." said the radio. Germany and Italy will recognise Japan's leedership for the creation of a new order in a great Asiatic lehensraum. The contracting parties agree to undertake to support each other militarily by all the means at their disposal in the 'event of one being attacked by a Power not yet involved either in the war against Britain or the Chinese-.Tapanese war. The agreernent, alters nothing in the political statns existing between-each and the Soviet. The pact is being enforced to-day.