NEUTRALITY PACT
SIGNED BY THE SOVIET AND JAPAN ACCOMPANYING JOINT DECLARATION. SOME DETAILS OF INTEREST. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) MOSCOW, April 13. Under the Russian-Japanese Neutrality Pact, both sides guarantee peaceful and friendly relations and undertake mutually to respect territorial inviolability. Each party is bound to neutrality in case the other becomes the object of military action on the part of one or more powers. Neutrality must .be observed throughout the conflict. The agreement is valid for five years from the day of its ratification and also can be extended for a further five years providing neither side denounces it a year before its expiration. A joint declaration, under which Russia .undertakes to respect the territorial integrity of Manchukuo and Japan to respect the integrity of Outer Mongolia is published simultaneously with the treaty. M. Molotov and Mr Matsuoka signed the treaty, after which Mr Matsuoka left for Tokio.
The Soviet and Japan have signed a pact of neutrality, as the outcome of the visit to Moscow of the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr Matsuoka, who has now left for Tokio, the 8.8. C. reports,.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1941, Page 4
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