London, June 17.
Highly reliable non-British diplomatic sources here yesterday revealed that a secret German-Japanese agreement exists whereby Tokyo will undertake to deliver a large volume of tropical products in return for German arms.
Rubber, tin and vegetable oils would be the principal tropical products Japan would supply Germany in return for Nazi armaments, said the diplomatic sources.
"Whether Japan would attack the Netherlands East Indies in order to Obtain enough materials to satisfy wants of Chancellor Adolf Hitler as well as Japan, apparently depends on whether Japan requires German armaments urgently enough to justify risking war in the Pacific, said diplomatic sources.
The same sources implied that Russia would exempt German arms shipments to Japan from the recent ban on transit of arms across Russia.—United Press,
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