The Archive · 1938

Reply Due on Saturday

Tokyo, Feb, 10, Japan's replies to Notes of the American, British and French Governments asking information on this country's naval building programme will be handed to the ambassadors of the three Powers on Saturday, it was understood to-night in official quarters, The replies were expected to reject the requests of the three Powers for information on Japan's naval plans, and to state that Japan is under no Obligation to give such notification, since she is not a party to the London Disarmament Treaty of 1036.—

Domei U.S. Denies "Spy" Story Washington, Feb, 9, The United States Navy to-day called "preposterous," the reports appearing la the British sensational, left-wing news sheet "The Week," alleging that American intelligence agents had stolen copies of Japan's naval programme last November, The London paper alleged that when Capt. R. E. Ingersoll, chief of the United States War Planning Department, visited London recently, he brought with him complete copies of Japan's new naval building programme, "The: Navy officially denied the statements in every detail, Similar spying reports were the centre of recent Congressional controversy when an Australian weekly paper said that United States naval planes had made maps of Japanese fortifications while conducting a wide-spread search for the missing American airwoman, Miss Amelia Korhart.—

United Press.

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