that Italy and the Reich would support Japan if she were attacked -by. Moscow was made in a letter to the "Tribuna" today written by Signor Corrolo Zah, former Governor of Eritrea.
"We must make it clear to the USSR. that the three-power pact is not of negative importance but of positive significance," he wrote. "It is, self-defence against the Bolshevist plague. The Soviets must know that we will not allow them to attack Japan if she were weakened by the Chinese war no more than we would allow them to strangle Nationalist Spain. All should realize that Italy will never be disinterested in the Far Eastern situation any more than we would be disinterested in the organization of Spain."—Havas.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.