The Archive · 1938

Tokyo Paper Angered By Soviet Stand

Japanese Urged to Be Ready for Worst

Tokyo, Dec. 5.

Lashing out at the Soviet Union for its refusal to sign a revised fishery convention,"the "Niehi-Nichi"- in a fárceful.editorial today urged the nation to be prepa precious rights zr means."

The da act with "grim determination" in case the Soviet Union "indulges in bad fait and arrogance by mistaking Japan's patience and conciliation for a manifestation of a weakened policy."

Asked whether any improvement had taken place in the negotiations between the Japanese Ambassador and officials in. Moscow, a Foreign Office spokesman declared today that the Soviet attitude was "not so good."

According to the Nichi-Nichi, the Moscow negotiations have reached a deadlock.—Dome!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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