The Archive · 1938

Gaimusho Denies Report Of Pledge to Germany

Alleged Promise to Moral Support Discounted

Tokyo, Sept. 9.

A Japanese press report that Mr. Kensuke Horinouchi, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs. yesterday gave an assurance to the. German Ambassador Major-General Eugen Ott, of Japan's moral support in the Czech crisis was emphatically denied this morning by a spokesman of the Foreign Office.

The spokesman also declared that no representation was made by Major-General Ott regarding the two aeroplanes of the Eurasia Aviation Corporation which were attacked by the Japanese air forces.

The meeting, the spokesman said, was confined io an exchange of information, Major-General Ott explaining the European situation and Mr. Horinouchi the position in China.—

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