NO SECRET TREATIES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18553, 13 November 1934, Page 7

NO SECRET TREATIES

BRITAIN AND JAPAN U.S. REPORTS DENIED TRADE MISSION’S STATUS (British Official Wireless.) R'e<*. noon. RUGBY, Nov. 12. Mr iU..:say MacDonald, whose attention was called to certain press state* meats published in the United States relating to the London naval conversations, authorised the following stalemen't: —

“I should like to have it thoroughly understood that the American representatives have been kept informed ol what has passed between the Japanese representatives and' ourselves during these conversations, just as the Japanese have been similarly informed of what has passed between the Americans and ourselves. “There is no truth in the story that, there is intense secret activity between the British and Japanese on the economic and political fronts. As regards Manehukuo and the Japanese, and the situations which have been fully discussed in the press, we have been asked, neither secretly nor otherwise, to consider any offer of concessions. So far as the Government is concerned, negotiations regarding the textile situation have been in abeyance for some months. For the industrial and commercial deputation recently in Japan, the Federation of British Industries 7s solely responsible, and, as its members themselves stated, it has no other status. , f In the House of Commons, Mr Anthony Eden stated, in reply to a question, that the opportunity already had been taken to emphasise to the Clmiese Government the entirely nonpolitical and unofficial character of the British industrial commission which recently visited Manchuria.