Tokyo, Mar. 25, Japan "means to [safeguard her treaty rights and interests in North the Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, told the House of Peers yesterday.
Numerous complaints, he indicated, have been received from Japanese concerns in the Soviet-governed half of the island against the alleged per-secütion of Japanese nationals by the Russian authorities.
The Japanese Government, he said, might possibly be obliged" to intervene in the current dispute between Manchoukuo and Soviet Russia regarding the last instalment due to Moscow for the Soviet share in the Chinese Eastern (North Manchuria) Railway.
Manchoukuo earlier this month declined to pay the last instalment until Russia pays between Y.5,000,000 and Y.6,000,000 claimed to be due for unpaid taxes, telegraph fees and other charges.
Mr. Hirota pointed out that Japan stood surety to Manchoukuo in her payment -of the sums due to Russia for the railway.
The position of the League of Nations the new situation arising from recent events in Austria and, in particular, the position of Czechoslovakia The definition of ments, to which the make any addition The British attitude to the recent Soviet initiative, The situation in Spain and the Anglo-Italian conversations in relation to it, and The acceleration of British rearmament.
Mr. Chamberlain reminded the House that the Government had already placed on record its judgment on the German action in Aus The consequences of the action mained—there had been a profound disturbance of international confidence.
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