JAPAN & AMERICA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1939, Page 5

JAPAN & AMERICA

PROSPECTIVE TRADE RELATIONS. FOLLOWING ON EXPIRATION OF TREATY. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 9.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 22. The Tokio correspondent of the United Press says a Foreign Office spokesman indicated that JapaneseAmerican trade relations would continue unimpeded after the expiration of the commercial treaty on January 26. The United States has given an assurance that there will be no increase in wharfage charges for Japanese ships, penalty duties on Japanese goods or inconvenience to Japanese residents in the United States. The indication was given following an hour’s conference between the Foreign Minister (Admiral Nomura) and the American Ambassador (Mr. Grew).

YANQTSE TRADE DISTRUST OF JAPANESE PROMISES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, December 22. ■ The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman confidently predicts that the United States will reply before Christmas to Japan’s notice of her intention to reopen the Yangtse, says the Tokio correspondent of the United Press of America. The correspondent at Shanghai of the “New York Times” states that evidence is multiplying that the proposed reopening is based on a genuine Japanese desire to restore trade and show that her previous promises were not empty words. Most exports of the region, can justifiably be claimed as essential to support the Japanese military in the Yangtse regions. Despite professions of good faith, pessimism continues. Everybody remembers nearly thirty months of promises and commitments by the Foreign Office, which the military would not permit to be implemented. It feared that the plan to reopen the Yangtscis in the same category as the reopening of Tsingtao’s port. Foreign trade proved meaningless and valueless. Americans and Europeans are surrounded by licence and permit systems which hopelessly bar trade. Seven germans 18pt.