Tokyo, Aug. 5.
Count Uchida, former Foreign Minister, has accepted the request of the Government to represent Japan at the signature of the Kellogg. ant war pact at Panis, Count Uchida is expected to depart from Japan on August 9.—Reuter.
Moscow, Aug. 5.
"The Kellogg treaty is obviously designed to isolate Russia," declared the Foreign Commissar, Comrade Chicherin, in the course of an i terview to-day, when he cited passages in the negotiations, like the inclusion of the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno Agreement and the Franch treation within the scope of the pact support of the contention th: was an integral part of the pre. poration for war agai Soviets, and suggested that, Powers desired to prove otherwise, there was still time to invite the participation of Soviet Russia, The Soviet, he proceeded, was pre pared to negotiate provided it was acquainted with all the correspond-fence exchanged in the course of the negotiations between the other Powers, but the pact, ho emphasiz~ ed, was weakened at present by the fact that it did not involve obligations regarding disarmament, Japanese Premier Unable to Sign Tokyo, Aug. 7
Reiterating that the preservation and promotion of world Peace is Japan's traditional policy and that consequently from the outset th: Government wholeheartedly ¢on-curred with the conclusion of the proposed treaty to outlaw war, the Foreign Office, inn statement to the press, emphasizes that the Promier would have liked to proceed personally to France to sign the trouty but that this is imas he is too engrossed with f State to travel so far. int, Uchida, the statement con-has therefore been selected as the most suitable substitute, as he is one of the foremost figures in Japan diplomatic circles, having been twice Foreign Minister and twice Premier ad interim, We now a Privy Courfeillor.—
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