Tokyo, Mar. 19.
Denunciation of the Nine-Power Treaty and the, Kellogg Pact and withdrawal from the International Labour Ofüce were foreshadowed yesterday by the Japanese. Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota, in the Lower House.
Replying to an interpellator who urged the Government to denounce the Nine-Power accord, Mr. Hirote declared:
"In view of the current situation, such a move would only be natural There still, however, remain some technical difficulties in the way of the procedure to be used."
The Kellogg Anti-War Pact, M Hirota aid, has been for a lon time "little more than an empty shell, most of its provisions never having been carried out by the signatories, In due time Japan will me stitute action for her withdrawal from the Pact."
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