Tokyo, May 10.
Under the caption of "Italy and the "Japan Times" says that Japan cannot help being acutely interested in the exceedingly delicate in the ies.
though both Japan and Italy are w signatories with Germany in Anti-Comintern Pact, yet on the break of the European war, both countries were equally strong in their affirmations of following a strict policy of non-involvement, Japan now remains in exactly the same position as she took up eight months ago.
"We cannot help believing that Italy, for her part, has no desire to enter the war. It is certainly with some apprehension that we watched the growth of strained relations between Italy and the Allies," the paper says.
Great Britain has the largest fleet in the world, and France's fleet is slightly larger than that of Italy. The German fleet is very small, and of course, it is not on her feet, except the submarine arm, that Germany is particularly depending. She has just given evidence in Norway that her main hopes are pinned on her mighty air arm. The "Japan Times" then asks: "May it be then that the Allies are feeling that their fleet is not so badly needed in the North Sea, and are disposed to use it in the Mediter-in expectation of war in the More U-Boat Prisoners Land in Britain London, May 10.
A further list of 41 U-boat prisoners of war, now held in Britain, has been issued by the War Office.
There is now a total of 268 U-boat prisoners in Britain, comprising 30 officers and 238 men of other ranks. Besides these, there are 20 German Air Force officers and 44 of other ranks who are prisoners of war in the United Kingdom—British Official Wireless,
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