CRITICAL POINT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1939, Page 6

CRITICAL POINT

IN THE ANGLO-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS REPORTED STATEMENT BY SIR R. CRAIGIE. CONFERENCE WITH FOREIGN DIPLOMATS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day. 12.40 p.m.) TOKIO. July 20. Sir Robert Craigie (British Ambassador) conferred with American and French diplomatic officials tonight. It is reported that he said the fate of the negotiations hangs on his meeting with Pdr H. Arita (Japanese Foreign Minister) tomorrow. ANTI-COMINTERN PACT. ATTITUDE OF JAPANESE GOVERNMENT. (Received This Day', 10.25 a.m.) TOKIO, July 20. The Premier, Baron Hiranuma, addressing the New China Affairs Council, said Japan was enthusiastic for strengthening the anti-Comintern Pact, but did not wish to exclude third Powers if they were sympathetic to the new order. JAPANESE IN CANADA PROPOSAL BY CONSERVATIVE LEADER. EXPULSION OF IMMIGRANTS. (Received This Day, Noon.) TORONTO. July 20. Colonel George Drew, Conservative Leader in the Legislature, addressing the Conservative Convention, declared that Canada should answer any Japanese declaration of anti-British feeling by ordering all Canadian Japanese to leave the country. If hatred of Britain were promulgated, the basis upon which Canada had allowed Japanese immigration would be destroyed. He urged that there should be no official welcome for the Japanese family flying the Pacific in August and no gesture of goodwill to Japan until the Tokio Government recognised international law and international decency.