SUSPENDED MEANTIME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 5

SUSPENDED MEANTIME

THE TOKIO DISCUSSIONS NOT NECESSARILY ENDED. STATEMENT EY JAPANESE SPOKESMAN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, August 21. At a conference between the British Ambassador in Tokio, Sir Robert Craigie, and till 1 Japanese diplomat. Mr Kato, yesterday it was mutually agreed io suspend the Tientsin talks. Britain iii Hie meantime is consulting other Powers on the currency (piest ions. The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said today that there was nothing in either the British or the Japanese statements to imply that the negotiations had ended. He denied the British assertion that the Japanese requested the removal of the silver reserves from Peking, but said he could not guarantee the future. AGAINST BRITAIN ASSOCIATION FORMED IN CHINA. PEKING. August 21. A "Grand Anti-British Association" has been formed to advise the puppet Governments on methods of enlarging the anti-British campaign throughout Asia. Cinemas in future will devote the first quarter of an hour to anti-British cartoons. British cars, including those used by the Embassy and military authorities, have ceased flying the Union Jack. NINE POWER TREATY DENUNCI AT lON CONSI DER ED BY JAPAN. (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) TOKIO. August 21. The "Asahi Shimbun'’ says Japan is considering the denouncing of the Nine Power. Cabinet meets tomorrow and is expected to finally decide upon European policy.