Tokyo, Sept. 19.
A ioréign press report that Japan had given fresh assurances to Germany and Italy in connection with the European crisis was category ically denied by a Foreign Office spokesman today, The spokesman said Ambassador Masaaki Hotta saw the Italian Fors eign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, in Rome last Saturday but gave no such assurances to him.—Domel Spokesman Denies Statement A Japanese Embassy denied at a press conference day that he had made a star attributed to him by Reuter's New: Agency regarding Japan's attitude in ihe event of an European war, "On Saturday last," the spokes, man said, "I had occasion to draw the attention of you to a report from. Hongkong wherein I was quoted as stating, according to a Reuter's telegram from Shanghai appearing in Chinese newspapers in the Colony, that Japan was prepared to Germany and Italy in the event of European war in accordance with the spirit of the anti-Comintern" Pact, "As I stated at the time, yhe report Wes untrue. I never commented on the question of Japan's altitude to. Watts the European crisis, have Been informed from Hong e of the star fade by the Foreiga in in Tokyo on the que 1 äm again alleged Reuter's tò have. peculatión in foreign circles in Shanghai.
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