The Archive · 1928

Japanese Diplomat on Russia

New Party Created by Soviets'

Economic Policy Tokyo, Nov. 3.

Mr. Tokichi Tanaka, the Japan-'Ambassador tothe Soviet arrived here last night from to attend the Coronation. in a press interview, explaining the Russo-Japanese negotiation regarding the forestry concessions in Siberia, said that, although he received a report at Vladivostok on his way home that the negotiations had reached deadlock due to the question of labour did not believe that the discussions would finally break up.

As regards internal conditions in Soviet Russia, Mr. Tanaka stated that the movement of the opposition had already ended and the country was at peace as a whole, though financial conditions were not too good. "The enforcement of the s0- called New Economic Policy," Mr. Tanaka continued," has brought about a difficult. state of affairs in connection with Russia's agricultural policy. As the result of the new policy, which encouraged farmers to increase their crops for export, new bourgeoisie class has been created. If the government intends to lay pressure upon the new rich farmers, then foreign trade will suffer with regard to China, although Soviet Russia took an active part when the Kuominchun's North: ern Expedition was marching to the Yangtze, she has given up her intention to support the Kuomintang because she now regards the National Government ax a tool of the bourgeoisie and is waiting for the awakening of the agricultural and industrial classes."—Toho, Moscow, Nov. 4.

Agreements have been signed granting Japanese fishing concerns the right to work the existing preserving works in Kamchatka, Reuter.

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