Berlin, Sept. 6.
Japan has been keeping Germany informed regularly and in detail of her intentions and actions in Indo China and Germany is fully aware of all that is transpiring in the Far East, well informed German quarters believed here yesterday.
Official German quarters, however, refused to comment on Japanese demands on Indo-China on the grounds that "the situation is still in a state of flux. Informed circles believed "close, friendly relations between Germany and Japan will insure that Indo-China problems will be settled.
They added that they were convinced Japan's interests in Indo-China were purely economic, plus the desire for the practical military concessions particularly necessary for the Chinese campaign, and are not territorial.
"These quarters agreed that Japan ese-Indo-China relations generally could be compared with Germany's relations with Balkans, part of which the Reich considers to be within its sphere of vital economic interests.—United Press,
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