Tokyo, July 14.
Mr. Hachiro Arita, the Foreign Minister, held a 4¥¢-hour cent ence with senior members of the Foreign Office last night, when "every conceivable situation which might possibly arise in the forthcoming Anglo-Japanese negotiations was discussed."
The conference took place after Mr. Arita returned from Hayama. where he went yesterday to report to the Emperor, who is in re~ sidence there, regarding the Cabinet's approval of the "funda mental policy" to be pursued in the Anglo-Sapanese conversations.
The attention of the whole tion is concentrated on the initial "The anti-British mass meetings throughout Japan, the spokesman re~ plied to a further question, were "purely spontaneous outbursts."—Reuter.
Long Talks Expected Tokyo, July 14.
Anglo-Japanese conversations for settlement of the tientsin dispute, scheduled to open here tomorrow, may end in August, Mr. Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, hinted here Hayama where he secured Imperial sanction of the policy to be followed at the pourparlers, Mr. Arita gave the oblique indication on the expected duration of the talks when he said that he Jooked forward toa week-end yest in August, "when the conversa tons Will be over."
Our policy is fixed," he told newspapermen. "All we have to do now:
to advance towards our goal."
The Foreign Minister said he intended to "go to the core of the ques-Mien" at the very first meeting, instead of limiting the session to one devoted fo an exchange of courtesies.
The initial meeting, he continued, would probably be between him and Sir Robert L. Craigie, British Ambaswersattons should not last the Foreign Minister de~ clared, but hastily added that he had no idea" how long they would take.
We shall have to begin before we may know how they will progress,"
stated. These talks, he remarked, Would be the first since the Soviet-'Tapanese-Manchoukuo conference for the sale of the North Manchuria Railway, the former Chinese Eastern conversation to be neid between Mr. Arita and Sir Robert Craigie, the British Ambassador. This talk 'Mr. Arita declared that his health' was good despite the heavy pressure hho had been subject to as a result of
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