Mr. Shigemitsu to Call On Lord Halifax London, Sept. 28.
Japanese residents of London are busily engaged in discussion of plans for evacuation as tense British and Japanese relations showed further signs of fast deterioration following the Japanese alliance with the Axis Power:
Mr. Mamoru Shigemitsu, Japanese Ambassador to London, cabled Tokyo asking that the Japanese Government instruct the liner, Fushimi Maru, to proceed from Lisbon to London for the evacuation of Japanese while Viscount Hisaakira Kano, manager of the Yokohama Specie Bank conferred with Mr. Kiyoshi Futami. inspector of the Bank of Japan regarding the disposal of bank funds, It is understood that Mr, Shigemitsu will call on Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, and form the British Government of the details of the treaty—Domei, One member of Congress said that se adherence to the Rome-
Berlin Axis almost certainly meant the existence of additional secret understandings and agreements such as existed between Germany and Italy before the Italian entrance into the European War.
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