Tokyo Newspaper Hints Of Pressure to Bring Peace Tokyo, Feb. 4.
Under streamer headlines, the "Yomiuri Shimbun" to-day features a report that the British Government is reliably learned to have been informally trying to ascertain, through Mr. Yoshida, the Japanese Ambassador in London, Japan's future intentions towards China.
Great Britain is also stated to have expressed hopes of a speedy settlement and to have offered her "unstinted ce-operation" to that end.
The "Yomiuri Shimbun" expresses the opinion that Great Britain, in conjunction with the United States. may be applying pressure to force a speedy settlement of the Sino-Japanese conflict.
"Japan," the newspaper adds, keeping a wary eye on the attitude of Great Britain and America,"—Reuter,
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