The "Japan Times" said the Ber-'1in-Moscow accord must have Reported Pact with Soviet Tokyo, Aug. 27.
The Japanese War Minister, Gen-enol Hagaki, declared in a conyers tion with Prince Konoye, President of the Privy Council, that Japan must maintain and even morally intensity liber friendly relations with Germany fand Italy, "The War Minister further stated that the question of a Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact men-Yoned abroad had so far only been theoretically discussed in Tokyo and was not yet a subject for practical decisions.
In this connection the Tokyo press today expresses the opinion that automatic inclusion of Japan in the Moscow-Berlin combination was to be rejected, Considerable attention is pald to an article published in the "Japan closely. connected which opposes the belief that Russia by conclusion. of the pact with many has obtained a free hand wards Japan in the Far East,
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