JAPANESE CLAIMS
PRESS TAKING LESS EXTREME TONE RECOGNITION OF HOSTILITIES ’ SOUGHT. MAY BE THIN EDGE OF WEDGE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. The Tokio correspondent oT . “The Rimes’’ says the fact that the Craigie-Arita conversations dealt with the general background of the Tientsin situation, for the discussion of which Japan demanded preference, is accepted as a first instalment of success. The tone of the Press is more moderate and demands for a reversal of. British policy have disappeared from its columns. It is obvious that Mr Chamberlain’s statement that ■ Britain would not change its policy, and had not been asked to do so, had been endorsed in official circles. New formulas have now been found under which Britain is asked to recognise that a state of hostilities exists and that the area around Tientsin is controlled by the Japanese Army. “The Times” adds that this may be the thin end of a wedge, the other end of which is still hidden, but according to the Japanese it merely asks for recognition of the obvious facts. J
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 7
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182JAPANESE CLAIMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1939, Page 7
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