Washington, Mar 11.
Indications that Japan would deal more considerately with foreign interests in the International Settlement in Shanghai, expressed yesterday by General Shunroku Hata, Commandetin-Chief of Japanese Forces in Sħanghai, was favourably received here to-day in responsible quarters.
General Hata's views were particularly welcomed in view of recent member of the British, German and Japanese Intelligence services, while Bessonov had admitted to acting as a liaison between M. Leon Trotsky, the exiled Bolshevik leader, and Krestinsky, Assistant Commissar for Foreign Affairs.
At the next session the prisoners will deliver their last pleas—Reuter,
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