Tokio, June 21.
To-day, the Foreign Office has published the full text of the notes exchanged between Japan and Russia.
The translation of the Russian note is as follows Your Excellency, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese Government:—Upon receipt of the Note from the Japanese Government, expressing its desire that informal negotiation may be opened between the official delegates of Japan and Russia as preliminaries to the 3rd Russo-Japanese negotiations, I, in the name of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, have the honour of notfying your Excellency that the Soviet Government has appointed M. Adroff Joffe, the Russian Plen:- potentiary Envoy in the Far Easz, as the delegate of Soviet Russia to the preliminary' negotiations bet-weep Japan and Russia.
Signed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Soviet Russia.
The translation of the reply from the Japanese Government is as Your Excellency, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Soviet Russia I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your telegraphic note dated June 16, informing me that the Government of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic had appointed M. Adroff Joffe as their official delegate to the informal negotiations preliminary to the Russo-Japanese Conference. In reply, I have the honour of informing Your Excellency that the Japanese Government has appointed Mr. Toshihiko Kawakami, the Japanese Minister to Poland, now in Tokio, as the delegate of the Japanese Government to the informal Russo-Japanese negotiations.
Signed by Count Uchida, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Japanese_ Government.
Cownt Uchida, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the course of an interview with Press representatives to-day, made a_ statement, in the main as follows:—As previously announced in the Imperial Diet, the Japanese Government takes no objection to its official recognition at any time of Soviet Russia, if the Nikolaievsk affair should be amicably settled, international fidelity amply guaranteed and friendly relations between Japan and Russia firmly established. In the forthcoming preliminary negotiations, the delegates of the two countries are expected to exchange views freely, with a view to solving all the problems that have hitherto been left unsettled between the two countries. Following an agreement of opinion on these problems, the Russo-Japanese Conference will formally be opened. If, however, Russia should still attempt to adhere to the same attitude and standpoint as she
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