The Archive · 1924

JAPAN'S APPREHENSIONS

Tokyo, Nov. '1.

As evidence of Japan's tremetidous interest in the British elections may be cited the prominence given to the cabled reports of results by the leading papers, which were printed with all the details received jand with pictures of Messrs, Mac-Donald, - Baldwin, Churchill and [Asquith, as well as prominent women members.

Comments on the result give attention to the probable revival of the Singapore base question, the matter of Imperial "preferences, which will intimately affect Japan her trade with India and elsewhere, and also speculate on the future Government's attitude vieivis of Russin—Reuter's Pacific

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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