Insistence on Extraterritoriality to be Dropped Tokyo, Aug. 17.
It 18 learned from _unoftcial sources that the Forvign Office expects to conclude a treaty dealing with commerce and navigation with Persia in September, to be signed before the end of the year.
The negotiations, which have been under way for some time, have been threatened with a break-down owing to Japan's demand for extraterritoriality, but it is understood that:
Mr, Torikichi Obata, the Japanese Ambassador at Constantir is conducting the negoti been instructed to fores sistence on this point thereby clearing away the main obstacle—Reuter.
Japan is trying to convert the siate movement to her own advantage.
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