The Chinese, the communique continued, left 81000 dead on the (Continued on page 6)
Tokyo, Dec. 27.
The United States is more interested in conerete results from its protests to Japan than in detailed outlines of Japan's future plans in China, the American Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Joseph Grew, told the Japanese Foreign Minister yesterday.
This blunt statement was made to the Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Hachiro Arita, while Mr. Grew was presenting another protest to Japan against continued violation of American rights and attacks on American interests by Japan in China.
The protest presented yesterday referred to ten cases in which Japanese planes bombed American property in China. Japan previously had promised to investigate the bombings, but to date has not honoured the American protests with a reply.
Informed quarters revealed today, however, that Mr. Grew took the occasion io express Washington's reaction to recent declarations in official Japanese circles regarding Japan's future policy in China. Mr. Grew informed the Japanese Foreign Minister that the United States is not satisfied with Japan's response to American protests regarding the Yangtze River blockade and other hindrances to foreign trade imposed by the Japanese Army and Navy in China.
Mr. Arita is understood to have replied to the Ambassador in a conciliatory tone, stating that previously ihe diversified system of authority in the Japanese Government prevented satisfactory handling of questions involving third powers in China. He promised that such authority would be centralized hereafter in the China Affairs Board which should lead to an improvement in the situation.
"Misunderstanding"
The Japanese Foreign Minister asked Mr. Grew why the American press persisted in "misunderstanding" Japan's intentions in China. Mr. Grew replied that many recent statements by Japanese authorities were susceptible to conflicting interpretations and hinted that the attitude of the American pri was the result of Japan's accomplished activities in China
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