The Archive · 1938

Japanese Diplomats On Way to Toyko

Relics of' Spanish War to Be Taken to Japan

Naples, Oct. 22.

M. Masaaki Hotta, Japanese Ambassador to Italy, and the two Japanese Ministers to Esthonia and Lithuania boarded the Terukuni Maru today, bound for Tokyo.

"M. Hotta is &cfompanied by his daughter.

The vessel taking the three diplomats is carrying a number of boxes containing Republican Spanish" war trophies captured by the Nationalist forces during the battles at Teruel Among the trophies are said fo be Russian-manufactured machine guns and an anti-tank gun, presented by General Franco to the Japanese Govemnment—Havas,, 2

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