[APAN confidently expects that the Tokyo, Sept. 19 1935 Naval Conference will produce 'a new treaty and is basing all her plans upon the expectation of obtaining such an agreement, a spokesman for the Foreign Office told United Press to-day.
He said that the naval situation had been borne in mind when it was decided to make the appointment, announced yesterday, of Mr. Shigeru Yoshida, former Ambassador to Rome, to the newly created post of liaison officer between Mr. Koki Hirota, the Foreign Minister, and Japanese envoys abroad.
The primary purpose of Mr. Yoshida's forthcoming trip to Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Paris, London, and Washington, he said, is to acquaint the ambassadors in those cities with current events in the home land, especially developments with regard to the coming Naval Conference. Mr, Hirota, he said, had larg considered such visits the most practical method of maintaining close touch between the Foreign Office and its representatives abroad.
The spokesman emphasized that! bers of the House of Peers to-day, ts the expectation of a new treaty does reported to have stated that Japan not mean the termination of the will demand global tonnage as a Washington Treaty, but alterations reduction formula, but the exact and modifications in the agreement amount of global tonnage will be Teached in 1922. proposed at next year's Naval Con-'These remarks were interpreted ference, and not during the London fas meaning that Japan desires a new treaty embracing many of the fea The Navy's Part tures of the Washington Pact, Tt was emphasized by the spokes~ Dairen. Sept. 19. man that Japan desires to avoid a Before leaving for Changchun this protracted period without any treaty. morning Admiral Suetsugu,—com-He said that the Government sees mander-in-chief of reason for secking special agreements with the United States and Manchuria and disarmament ques-Great Britain tions were indivisibly united, and Manchoukuo was staunchly support-'Mr, Hirota Explains Japan's equality demands to be Mr, Hirota appeared before the placed before the London Conference Privy Counelt to-day, where he of 1085. plained in the greatest detail the Stressing the importance of the Government's naval policies. He also Japanese navy, Admiral Suetsugu apparently presented a summary of explained that although the army had the attitudes of: the- other powers) grappled with the Manchurian crisis, nese programme. was the navy which had kept off specifically regarding the! the menace created by the League of Government's attitude inthe event Nations and anti-Sapanese activities of the 1935 Conference proving un-looming from the successful and the Washington Treaty Therefore, he added, it was the Being terminated, it ts understood strength of the Japanese navy which 'Mr. Hirota replied' along Lines similar had brought the Manchurian incident to the Foreign Office spokesman's to a successful culmination, and. statement to the press. which had guaranteed the future Mr. Hirota, it was reported told peace of the Far East—Reuter. the Privy Counefl that Japan does not expect the coming conference to Denunclation Prophested break down, Tokyo, Sept. 1 Members of the Privy Council also The Japanese Government will an-asked Mr. Hirota to submit later an ounce the abrogation of the Wa explanation of the effect of the ington Treaty before the end of this entrance of the Soviet Union into year, if the London preliminary con= the League of Nations upon Far East versations bring no desired results, etn affairs, and whether the new the Foreign Minister and the Nave development will in any way effect Minister informed the Privy Council Sapan's position or policies—United Press.
Global Tonnage Demand They told the Council that they viewed th of agreement. Tokyo, Sept. 1 at the Naval Conference. without Admiral Osuml, Japanese Navy pessimism, despite the nationalist Minister, in an interview with mem-tendencies of the world powers. Mr. Hiroté predicted a successful culmination to the negations for the
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