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MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1939
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TOKYO NEGOTIATIONS HELD RUPTURED BY DEPARTURE OF MILITARY DELEGATION
TOKYO, TO-DAY. IN THE FACE OF "BRITISH TACTICS IN POSTPONING THE REBUMPTION OF THE DELIBERA. TIONS AGAIN AND AGAIN," IT IS USELESS TO REMAIN ANY LONG- ER IN TOKYO, SAID MAJOR-GEN. ERAL MUTO, CHIEF OF THE TIEN- TSIN MILITARY DELEGATION, PRIOR TO THEIR DEPARTURE FOR TIENTSIN.
Mr. Hachiro Arita is reported to have convened a conference of lead- ing officials of the Japanese Foreign Office at which the following decisions were reached:-
Japan reserves the right to decide -whether to resume the deliberations after the arrival of new instructions from London;
Japan will accept the British pro-
Hope Still Held
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London, To-day.
If Parliament had still been sitting it would un-
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London, To-day.
hard words to say about the decision of the British
UNDER THE CAPTION “After Two Years' Warfare," Government to hand over to-day's "Daily Telegraph" says that the announce- the four Chinese suspects ment of the Japanese military mission's return to to the Japanese, com- Tientsin and the renewed anti-British demonstrations ments the "News Chroni- in China do not encourage the hope that there may cle.' be an early and satisfactory outcome of the negotia- tions in Tokyo.
posal to begin new negotiations only There is, however, no course open but to pursue the talks in the hope that the responsibility for good order in the "occupied" areas of China that Japan claims for it- self will soon be exercised.
in the event of the new instructions being sufficient to permit further de- liberations to end successfully (that is to say, in case Britain's agreement to concessions is absolutely certain!)
Meanwhile, politically-informed circles fear that the situation will now not only remain strained but will most probably become still more acute.
INTENTIONAL EVASION
Tokyo that nothing to arrived at.
repeated assertions that the rights o third Powers would be fully respect ed would be greater were it not fact that those rights have been dis regarded wherever Japan has won success.
Referring to the Japanese endeav-in the Far East. The worth of the ours to extend the scope of the Toky conversations to matters concernin currency and silver, the "Daily Tele- graph" says that though Tokyo, may act on the assumption that events in China have superseded the Nine Power Treaty, our signature remains goods and debars us from indepen- dent action.
REMOTE HOPE
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The view is held in hitherto there has been indicate that London has
The Japanese establishment of "a really clear decision," because all peaceful regime in China seems, in the concessions so far proposed have been opinion of the paper, to be more re- "totally insufficient and the issue in-mote than at the beginning of hostili. tentionally evaded."
tles.
The Tokyo newspaper "Asahi Shimbun" says Britain does not de-
sire
tu co-operate with Japan ii solving the Tientsin question but is juggling diplomatically with the in- ⚫ternational situation to avoid funda-
mental decisions.
London only makes concessions on matters of mor importance while trying to play off Third Powers against Japan.-Trans-Ocean.
MUTO CHARGES
Tokyo, To-day. General Muto alleged that the Bri- tish representatives at the round- table conference displayed insincerity by delaying tactics when economic issues were raised, and were schem- ing for the entry of the United States and other third Powers into the, con
ference.
The “Kokumin, Shimbun," the. Army, paper, considers that the conference has been ruptured by r the withdrawar of the military: delegation, Reuter.
SUPERFLUOUS
"Berlin," To-day.
"Japanese rule does not extend beyond the range of her guns." After remarking that there is, yet, no sign of a collapse in the Jn panese economy, the "Daily Tele- graph" concludes:
To Japanese acts, must be ascribe the growing tension in the situation
MENDELSSOHN BANK FAILURE
AMSTERDAM, TO-DẠY. INVESTIGATIONS IN THE EX- TENT OF THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE BANKING FIRM, MENDELS SOHN AND CO., AMSTERDAM, RE-
VEAL THAT HEAVY-LOSSES MUST BE EXPECTED.
The "Handelsblad" reports that concern has been caused by the dis appearance of Mannheimer's private fortune. which, in Netherlands busi-
·ness circles, had been estimated at about one hundred million guilders:
The "Handelsblad" declares that such estimates are. fantastic, but adds that the disappearance of these assets. Regarding rumours in foreign ch has caused "misgivings among those cles that the visit of the Italian For-most directly affected. eign Minister to Salzburg would be. While the rest of the prefs exer- followed by others, well-informed clsen' the greatest restraint, the "Nn- circles declare that all current questionale Dagblad" yesterday launche tions were exhaustively treated, so a sharp attack on various leading per- that further conversations would be sonages of Holland who supported superfluous.--Trans-Ocean,
Mannheimer-Trans-Ocean.
CHINESE STOUTHEARTED The paper stresses the fact that the Chinese have been welded under the hammer-strokes into a nation cap able of heroic sacrifice in the defen areas continuing to acknowledge authority of Generalissimo
Ja Kai-shek, and adds that though pan has stated that she will not der. on any basis with Chiang Kai-shek peace without the Chinese consent is
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As was expected, this cowardly de- cision failed entirely to bring about a
better spirit. in Anglo-Japanese rela- tlons.
The Japanese Carabus "gobbled up the sop and was now ready for the next - meal.
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In the meantime, legal machinery had been set into motion by two dis- interested "British citizens in the hope of saving the four Chinese, it is a. sad commentary on British justice that it should be left to private ac- tion to invoke a legal process which the British Government must now be finding an acute embarrasement. Reuter.
not within the realm of possibilitie and the Chinese Government Wa never less inclined than at this mo- ment to discuss terms.--Reuter.
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