Soviet-Jananese negotiations upon the dimeult Asheries question were still at a deadlock today after the eleventh interview between. the For= cion Commissar. Mf. Maxim Litvinov. jand M. Shigennri Togo, Tanan's Am= bassador to Russia, well-informed counters asterted tonight.
During this latest meeting, Litvinov announesd that his Govern ment was ready to reduce from forty fo thirty the number of fisheries 10 doerd fo Jananese fishermen. Mf Togo relected this propacal, hawoves: consenting to the cloture of nly ye present fisheries and on con= lon that others be marked aut "Amon ten new fichory sites pro= posed! for Japanese fishermen, three would be located in the Japan Sea, it was stressed in political circles here. These quarters pointed out that-"Tokvo was now—complaining, that the Soviets wore trying to drive them out of the Javan Sea.
According to the Portsmouth Treaty, it was recalled,—Jnnanese fishery rights in the Okhotsk, Behring, and Japan Seas were formally recognized.
M. Lilvinoy insisted during his latest interview with M. Togo that the auction system be maintained in the distribution of the fisheries among Japanese companies, it was further learned tonight—Havas.
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