Tokyo, Dee, 18, The Japanese Foreign Offive made public today petitions, which have bboen received from various quarters by the Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, in connection with the Soviet Union's "procrastination" In signing the new fishery convention which was initialled Between the USSR. and Japan last year, The Mayor of Hakodate, a city in Hokkaido which ig the base for Japanese fishing operations northern waters, went a telegram on December 3 to the Foreign Minister, pointing, out the "lack of sincerity" of the Soviet in concluding the new fishery convention. It urged the Forelzn Minister to "take the best possible measure for sifeuardingt Japan's dishing rights as provided for Jin the Treaty of 1905 and reaffirmed the Treaty of 1925."
December 12 the Speaker of the Municipal Assembly of Hakodate sent a similar telegram to the Foreign Minister, and' on December 11 the chairman' of the Japan Internaional Association, at the request. of its Hakodate branch, made a_ similar
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