SETTLEMENT EFFORTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1939, Page 9

SETTLEMENT EFFORTS

RESIGNATION OF OFFICIALS IN JAPAN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, October 12. The Tokio correspondent of the Associated Press of America says the Vice-Foreign Minister, Mr Tani, has offered to resign and assume the responsibility for the recent mass resignations from the Foreign Office. The United Press of America correspondent says that the officials resignations have not been accepted. Efforts are being continued to induce their acceptance of a modified plan whereby the appointment of commercial attaches, will be retained in the Foreign Office, General Abe is holding Mr Tani blameless, and is likewise not accepting h’is resignation. A New York cablegram on October 5 stated: The Tokio correspondent of the “New York Times” says the entire staff of the commercial department of the Foreign Office is on strike against Cabinet’s decision to merge them and four other Departments in a new Ministry of Trade, which has been created largely as the result of the army policy. The Foreign Office fears the Ministry will take economic diplomacy from them in the same way as the creation of the China Affairs Board last year took the China policy away. CRISIS AVERTED RESIGNATIONS WITHDRAWN. (Received This Day, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 13. The Associated Press of America Tokio correspondent says a Cabinet crisis appeared to be averted when a spokesman for 150 of those who had resigned from the Foreign Office an nounced the withdrawal of their resignations. the Government agreeing to respect their wishes in a “compromise” plan for the creation of the new Trade Ministry.