TOKIO DISCUSSIONS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 195, 19 July 1939, Page 9

TOKIO DISCUSSIONS

talks resume to-day.

adverse atmosphere

agitation still raging

(United Press Association.; —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received July 19, 11 a.m. TOKIO, July 1S V The conversations between Sir Robert Craigie (British Ambassador to Japan) and Mr Arita (Japanese Foreign Minister) will resume to-morrow morning. Such negotiations seldom have been conducted in a worse atmosphere. Tokio is quiet, but anti-British agitation is raging elsewhere. This agitation in China could not have begun without the approval of tlio Japanese army, and it provides evidence of a powerful influence to prevent a settlement acceptable to Britain. Meanwhile, a Shanghai message says that the Japanese stabilisation fund again has stopped the selling of sterling. The Chinese dollar tell to od torday. According to the Hong Kong correspondent of the Times, the decline of the Chinese dollar is causing the Chinese to go to Canton owing to the high cost of living in Hong Kong, where the first Japanese controlled English, language paper has appeared. The Japanese Consul-General in Canton visited Hong Kong to-day on an undisclosed mission. It is denied that the Japanese othcially encourage anti-British agitation.