To Shanghai Shanghai, Apr. 1 There were numerous Chinese re~ ports and rumours yesterday to the effect that German officers, youths, Gestapo and parachute-jumping me structors have come to the Far East and Shanghai to help the Japanese technically. Nazi officials in Shang hai discredited the reports, but admitted that the Nazi organization called "Strength through Joy" has been working. in Hongkew without political motives, During the past few weeks reports have often appeared in the Chinese press in Shanghai saying' that German and Italian officers had come to the aid of the Japanese, 'One report asserted that German and Kahn military experts had gone to Hainan Island to help the Japan~ ete there in their southward expansion, While it is dificult to. confirm' the reports locally, thinking. Chinese here generally agree that itis: Mikely that such things might have happened, seeing that in the! tripartite agreement, Japan's Axis partners in Europe' promised help Slong these lines,
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