Tokyo, Dee. 12.
Terminating a five-month bitter commercial feud with Australia, the Foreign Office to-day instructed the: Consul-General at Sydney, Mr, Murai, to accept the Canberra Government's proposal for the purchase 800,000 bales of Australian wool in the next two years. atte, ommamvesith, Government Purchase in return 102,000,000 sq. yd. agreed in principle 19 of cotton and rayon textiles a year, in additions to 20,000,000 yd, of calico material for wheat four bags.
The Gaimusho took the action in collaboration with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Mr, Murai is expeded to inform the Canberra authorities of Japan's stand to-day.
Informed quariers here expect the inauguration of formal negotiations to be accompanied by the voiding of the provisions of the Trade Safe guarding Law, now barring Austra-Van goods from Japan, and the simultaneous lowering of the prohibitive tariff clamped on Japanese-made pro-duets by Australia last summer,
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