Tokio, 30th April.
The Minister for the Netherlands has announced that Holland is not a pees, to arbitration in the House ax dispute. Moreover the United States, Ruasia, Italy, Austria, Spain and Portugal have adopted a similar attitude, Germany is apparently hesitating, because the terms of her Treaty with Japan render it difficult for her to formulate an independent claim, for which reason she must rely upon the favoured nation clause. Thus France is the only Power that has hitherto officially accepted the principle of arbitration, the British representative at Tokio not having yet accepted it—Special service,
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