's Foreign Office Worried by Chinese Antagonism SPECIAL sEnvIcR
Tokyo, Dee. 11, Nationalists ist the appoint-'The growing protests of Chinese
anent of Mr. Torikichi Obats, former Japanese Ambassador to Turkey, to de Minister to China, succeeding the late Mr. Sadao Saburi, are worrying the officials of the Foreign Office here.
Mx, Obata is due to leave shortly to take up his post and the Nationalist protests against his Appointment ate considered especially unfortunate in view of th iffcult negotiations with the nese Government which he faces, for renewal of the Sino-Japanese commercial treaty—the basic agreement between the two powers.
The National Government of the Chinese Republic informed the Foreign Office on December 10 that Mr, Obata was persona grata as Minister, and his appointment was announced, There was an imme: Giate storm in the Chinese press, newspapers recalling that Mr, Obata was in the Japanese Legation in Peking at the time of the presen-
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