BRITAIN AND JAPAN
NO FORMAL NEGOTIATIONS
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, May 6.
Questioned in the House of Commons on reported negotiations between Britain and Japan, the Undersecretary of State for, Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, replied that there had been no formal / negotiations between the British and Japanese Governments concerning! their respective interests in China. [A number of informal conversations', had taken place in recent months with the Japanese Ambassador, Mr. Sj. Yoshida, which had as their object'the better orderIng of Anglo-Japaniese relations generally. ' No concrete suggestions had been made by either side in regard to their interests in China or any other matter.
The desirability of keeping other interested Governments informed had not been overlooked. In another reply Lord Cranborne stated that, the 'British Government had no intention 'of departing from its consistent policy- of respecting the sovereign rights 'of China.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 9
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