Tokyo, May 12.
The Foreign OMice to-day issued a 2,000-word review of the Japanese Viewpoint of the Anglo-Japanese trade negotiations.
Tt outlines the memorandum sent by the Board of Trade to Mr. T. Matsudaira, Japanese Ambassador in London, on April 25 last year, the notice of May 16 regarding the with-Grawal of West. Africa from the Anglo-Japanese Commercial Treaty. Mr. Matsudaira's reply of May 24, the abortive exchange of views which followed, ending in the rupt ture of the textile conference London on March 14, the British Government's notification to Japan of May 3, and the gist of the statement made by Mr. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Trade, on May 7.
The review concludes: "The Japanese Government. is minutely observing the nature of the action
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