Tokyo, June 23.
Intense excitement prevails among the usually phlegmatic citizens of Berlin with fist-shaking crowds shouting "traitors" "Jews" and other terms of defiance in front of ihe Soviet Embassy yesterday morning, it was reported by the "Yomiuri's" Berlin correspondent when the home office called up the Berlin ofice at 6 o'clock yesterday evening.
The correspondent stated that all communications with foreign countries had been absolutely prohibited from 6 pin. on June 21 with the German declaration of war allowed to be sent out at 7 a.m. on June 22 only after the German people were first. informed, The correspondent said that Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop met correspondents at 6 o'clock in the evening of June 22 and explained German-Soviet problems for 50 minutes, reading from a 110-page document containing more than 20 separate instances "which alleged unjustified Soviet military acts, He added that German newspapermen present shouted their approval "of the Foreign Minister's announcement, 'Absolute confidence in' a_quick victory was felt by every German, despite the magnitude of the eastern line, the correspondents declared; saying that: even the smallest children were familiar with the details of the first World Wer Tannenburg battle in which Russia was crushingly defeated.
The feeling that prevails amors foreign correspondents in Berlin that there is a large possibility that the German move against the Soviet "Union may be accompanied by the launching of the much-awolled inva, sich of Britain, the correspondent declared, asserting that the Germans do not believe that the United States is willing to plunge into the present ma&lstrom. x Regarding actual hostilities, the correspondent said there were at least 3,000,000 German and Soviet troops facing each other on the borders row, but reported that military experts believe the Germafi armies will be in complete control of Europe and Soviet Russia within two months Domes.
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