Author ies; Japan Wants Radical Improvement Tokyo, June 1 MENTING on a statement setting forth the issues involved in the Tientsin blockade as seen by British Government teles, Japanese Government circles today declared that the British statement was intended to "whitewash the serious blunder committed by the British authorities in stubbornly refusing to deliver the assassins of the Tientsin Customs Commissioner."
The alleged slayers ought to have been extradited long ago, Government circles The British authori fies were said to have resorted to a makeshift under the necessity of misrepresenting the Japanese "legitimate contention as an attempt to jeopardize even the rights and interests of third Powers which have no connect with the current question."
Four suspects in custody re-enacted the crime at the place' where it wax committed on Aprit 80 in. the presence of a British Consul, British superintendent of Police and others Japanese official quarters pointed onl. Later' the British authorities otissed' to hand over the criminals fon the grounds that the Japanese Fecord of the investigation and de~ positions of the accused did not tally With the facts, it was recalled, 'The Japanese Consul-Geneval, Mr. Shigenotl 'Tashivo, on May' 8 form. fly requested the' British Consul-general to deliver the. criminal it. the British Consul-General made no definite reply, stating That no" instructions hae" been received from Sir Archibald lark Kerr, British Ambassador China, and from the British Govern~ mont, Axa resulta month's time was "wasted "until June 7, the fina date fixed by the Japanese Ties for delivery' of the eri
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.