DYNAMITE UNDER MEXICO
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"Minatu Maru," the "Minowa Mam" and the
which had been hovering out on the Pacific while
the negotiations were going on, appeared in Guaymas. Their
fishing boats, the
"Saro
Maru,"
captains reported to the
Nippon Suisan
Kaisha, a fishing
com
pany with headquarters in Guaymas. Eighty per cent of this
company s stock is owned by the Japanese Government.
Each ship is equipped with large fish bins which can easily
be turned into munition
carriers,
each has powerful short-wave
and each has extraordinarily long
from three to six thousand miles. These
cruising powers ranging
boats do not do much fishing. They confine themselves to
which Includes the taking of soundings of harbors,
ploring,"
to
especially Magdalena Bay. Apparently the explorers want
there are any
know how deep the fish can swim and whether
sending and receiving
sets;
"ex
rocks or ledges in their way.
That Germany, Japan and Italy are not working toward peace
Mexico is slowly dawning upon the Mexican Govern
ment. Influential government and trade-union leaders have re
peatedly shown their dislike of Nazism and fascism and have
ful ends in
urged propaganda against them.
On
morning of October 5, 1937, Freiherr Riedt von ColNazi minister to Mexico, telephoned the Japanese and
lenberg,
Italian ministers to suggest a joint meeting to discuss steps to
counteract the attacks on fascism and their countries. The Jap
anese minister, Sacchiro Koshda, suave and skilled in such
the
matters, thought it would not be wise to meet in any of the
legations. The Italian minister suggested the offices of the Italian
Union on San Cosne Avenue.
At half past one in the afternoon
of October
7,
the ministers
arrived, each in a taxi instead of the legation car which carries
a conspicuous diplomatic license plate. At this secret meeting