Tokyo, Oct. 20.
'A propaganda campaign has been started by British and German residents of Kobe. Mr. E. W. James, jor Cameron & Ca, Lid. distributed 15,000 copies of a pamphlet written in Japanese and entitled "Who Should be Blamed for the Present European War?"
He distributed the pamphlets among. various Japanese civie bodies, organiz~ ions and clubs as well as among his friends, He is distributing 5,000 wore. in English among various foreign circles in Kobe.
Mr. Douglas M. Young, former pro-Jprietor of the, Kobe "Herald" and JOsaka "Gazette," which are no longer published, was said to be planning to resume publication of the papers in the near future for the purpose: of jehampioning the British cause.
Meanwhile German residents of [Kobe and Osaka were said to be actively upholding Germany's cause. The German Consulate-General reportedly was very active in taking Issue with the British propaganda—Dome. issues." he declared, "forms the sine qua non for the purpose.'
Turning to Japan's relations with Ytaly and Germany, Admiral Nomura observed that misunderstanding apparently prevailed in some quarters that the "anti-Comintern Pact had been abandoned following the conclusion "of a non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviet Union—Reuter, Soviet Making Serious Demands on China Tokyo, Oct. 109, report that the Soviel. Union is making serious demands on the Chinese Government, is contained. in Japanese press messages received here today.
These reports allege that the position of the Chinese Government has been considerably weakened by the outbreak of the European war and [the steady. progress of the campaign {for the establishment of a new een ftral_government of China.
"Taking advantage of the precarilous plight into which the Chinese Government might have been re-Jduced," states a Japanese report from Nanking, "the Soviet Union is, making serious demands on the Chungking Government in return for con-luied assistance."
The demands, the report declares, It of, the Soviet to. station of northwestern nina,
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