Tokyo, July 16, Fears of an early breakdown of Anglo-Japanese conversations for a settlement of the Tientsin dispute wore freely expressed here today as Ambassador Sir Robert I, Craigie was scheduled to meet with Mr. Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, for their second meeting tomorrow, This pessimistic outlook was caused by the. belief that the British Ambassador would not accede to the Japanese proposal that fundamental questions Involved in the. Tientsin issue should be discussed frst, 'The British standpoint is understood to be that individual and specific questions in the Tientsin dispute should be settled' frst to pave the way for an amicable exchange of views on spanese observers attributed Sir Robert's reported refusal yesterday to agree to Mr, Arita's proposal 10 The desire to forestall the presentation of Japanese demands for a revision of China's policy, which "the Japanese Government Fegards as one of the basic issues in-the Tientsin dispute and attempt checkmate Japan by discussing specie "issues tone by one 0 as to retain a wider eld for bargaining by presenting counter-demands for the protection of British rights and interests—Domei, Japan Asked to Claim Antarctic Lands Tokyo, July 13.
The Antarctic Research Sociey, has shed the Japanese Government to Tay oficial claim to part of the terri tory of Antarctica, The Society points out that a-Japanese expedition in 1012 discovered and visited the so-called Yamato. snowfeld. Hainan Bay, Okura Bay, Shitawashi Mountain and Yonin Glacier in the Antarctic region, thus making these territories possessions of Japan.—Trans-Ocean,
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