The authorities of the International Settlement and French Concession have been asked by the Japanese authorities to take measures for strict control of the posting of anti-Japenese bills and posters, a spokesman for the Japanese Embassy revealed yesterday afternoon. The Despite rumours to the contrary, there is a tendency in London to discount suggestions that any secret understanding is included in the anti-Comintern Agreement. Competent observers are disposed to accept the assurance of Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, in this regard.
Some quarters believe that although it might, at one time, have been intended to insert more in the original Germany-Italian Pact, this intention was never fulfilled. It is suggested that the Germany-Japan Agreement has produced little in the way of concrete results, German trade interests in China are recalled and it is pointed out that Germany still has a number of military advisers with the Chinese Government, British quarters have no evidence to confirm suggestions of impending mediation by Germany in the Far Eastern. conflict, and, certainly, there has been no request to take such a step addressed to Germany from London or from the Brussels Conference.
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