London, Dec. 13.
Mz. Vernon Bartlett, writing in the J"News-Chronicle" today, states that understands Mr. Hachiro Arita, the JJapanese Foreign Minister, when interviewing the British and Amer! Ambassadors last week, emphasize that his polley was gradually to exclude their compatriots from the jeconomie life of the Far East.
Mr. Arita, says Mr. Bartlett, made ino direct threat to denounce the Nine Power Treaty, as this would doubtless lead to counter-measures against [Japanese trade elsewhere.
The protests of Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador in Tokyo, Mr. Bartlett understands, met with a bland assurance of preferences among Far [Eastern Powers.
"These assurances," he declares, }vcarry less and less weight with the British Government, and it would not be surprising if the diMeulties became cute the New Year."
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