JAPANESE DISTRUST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1939, Page 5

JAPANESE DISTRUST

DEADLOCK IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH RUSSIA DESIRE FOR SETTLEMENT WITH U.S.A. X POSSIBLE ADJUSTMENTS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright NEW YORK, October 23. The Moscow correspondent of the “New York Times,” Mr Gedye, says that the reported breakdown in the negotiations between Russia and Japan on Outer Mongolia is really a dispute concerning the scope of the exchange of prisoners embodied in the recent armistice. The Soviet contends that it includes Russian airmen and others imprisoned in Manchukuo. The Japanese insist that it does not, hence the deadlock. Negotiations are proceeding in Moscow at present to see whether the wide settlement which was being discussed cannot be confirmed. The cessation of propaganda suggests that both are preparing an atmosphere in which wider adjustments are possible. However, the Japanese have really set their hearts on a settlement with the United States, since they Russia. The Japanese believe that the European war will practically eliminate British and French competition in China. AMERICAN MEDIATION SAID TO BE SOUGHT BY JAPAN. IN WAR WITH CHINA. (Received This Day, 9.0 a.m.) | TOKIO, October 24. The Domei Agency states that the Chinese Government has made important proposals to the United States Ambassador in China, Mr Johnson, possibly in connection with overtures for American mediation in the ChineseJapanese war. 1