FISHING DISPUTE
JAPAN AND SOVIET
FIRM ATTITUDE IN TOKIO
(Received February 17, 10.30 a.m.)
TOKIO, February 16.
The Foreign Office has instructed the Ambassador in Moscow to press for immediate settlement of the fisheries dispute. Japan will take "unreserved appropriate measures" unless Russia reconsiders her attitude. ' /
The fishing convention between Russia and Japan giving Japan the right to fish in Soviet territorial wafers in the Far East was renewed at the end of 1937 for a further twelve months ending on December 31, 1938. Japan wanted a new convention env bodying conditions not contained in the agreement which expired last, December. Japan's staple food 'supplies largely depend on her right to fish in Soviet waters.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 40, 17 February 1939, Page 9
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