claration of war on China for the Japan is considering a formal de-Washington, Feb, 8.
purpose, of demanding belligerent rights and in order to establish a blockade of Rangoon in the Indian Ocean, according to Scripps-Howard papers.
Japan, however, they add, has first asked Berlin to bring pressure to bear on Moscow to get Russian supplies to China stopped and a nonaggression pact arranged between Moscow and Tokyo.
The papers also report that Germany is trying hard to bring about such an entente in order to free Japan's hands for a diversion in the Pacific in an endeavour to paralyse further American aid for Britain Reuter.
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