NEWS AND NOTES
The total absence of an official declaration from the Japanese Government regarding Tientsin, for which Britain is waiting, causes the deadlock in the Far Eastern situation to continue. A Tokio Foreign Office spokesman said the Government is still waiting on a detailed report from Tientsin, making it impossible to reply to Sir Robert Craigie’s protest of last week.
Official circles, according to the New York Daily News, are seriously considering a long-range naval blockade by Britain and America “as a means of filing down the Japanese military caste to its proper proportions.” The newspaper adds that they may be forced into such action soon. Editorially, the Daily News advocates a blockade outside the line of maximum Japanese effectiveness, with the United States fleet based at Hawaii, as the Phillipine Islands are too close to the Japanese bases.
In answer to a question in the House of Commons on Tientsin, the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, intimated that Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador to Tokio, was discussing the present situation in all its aspects with Mr. Arita, Japanese Foreign Minister, and added that he had some reason to hope that this discussion might lead to a settlement of the affair.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4803, 28 June 1939, Page 8
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