SCOPE OF TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 14, 17 July 1939, Page 9

SCOPE OF TALKS

BRITAIN AND JAPAN

REPORT TO LONDON

TOKIO DEMONSTRATIONS

CEASE

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, July 15

The Anglo-Japanese conversations opened in Tokio today and lasted three and a half hours. There will be another meeting on Monday.

It is understood that the Foreign j Minister, Mr. Arita, proposed that j Britain announce ber intention of j co-operating with Japan by recognising the historic changes in the i Far East. The British Ambassador, j Sir Robert Craigie, suggested that I the definite causes of the Tientsin dispute should be mentioned first. Mr. Arita replied that there should be an understanding of fundamental questions lo enable the negotiations lo proceed smoothly. It is reliably reported in Tokio that serious differences arose over the scope of the negotiations. The Japanese predict that the fundamental divergence of opinion will become more obvious as the negotiations progress. A report from Sir Robert Craigie on yesterday's demonstration outside tlie British Embassy is now under consideration in London. The Tokio correspondent of "Tbe Times" reports that the antbßritish manifestations in Tokio ceased as j suddenly as they began, and that the J gates of the British Embassy are j wide open. These peaceful condi- j tions coincided with the initiation of j the talks between Sir Robert Craigie j and Mr. Arita. On the other hand, hostile demonstrations in other \ parts of Japan, Manchukuo. and j China were unabated at the week- j end. I