'A rupture of the Tokyo conversa tions. was declared by the "Asahi" newspapers today to be inevitable should Britain persist in her policy procrastination, but a delay of "a Tew days' would not be important if agreement was subsequently Declaring that the July 22 accord between Mr. Hachiro Arita, Japanese Foreign Minister, and Sir Robert hod remited from the "far sighted statesmanship" of Mr, Neville Chamberipin, the newspapers'sald they trusted that same' statesmanship and good faith" will be manifested by Britain In settling various individual questions in the Tientsin dispute.
It Britain should play for time, the Influential" "Nichi-Nichi" chain newspapers said, it would "only add to the difMiculty® of settling various Tientsin issues. The dailies expressed the hope that Britain would carry Out the pledge it had given in the Arita-Craigie agreement on general questions which formed the back-Ground of the Tientsin situation.
Denouncing Britain as lacking ood faith In delaying the conference proceedings, the "Yomiuri Shimbun" re-talled editorially that the Tokyo conference had been convoked at the Fequest of the British.
Japan, the Journal declared, was not so much concerned over the outcome of the conference as Britain 'A warning that It would be a mis take for Britain to imagine that ant British agitation in Japan and China could be kept within its present proportions in the event of a rupture of the Tokyo conversations was sounded by the "Miyako Shimbun."
The "Kokumin Shimbun," which has consistently advocated a'tripartite alliance between Germany, aly and Japan, today expressed the pellet that the deliberations of the "inner Cabinet" on Japan's European policy were exerting a "delicate influence" upon the Anglo-Japanese talks, Alleging that the Arita-Craigie agreement on general questions Tientsin had been concluded because of a British concession to Japan made to dissuade Japan from Joining the European Axis Powers, ihe. "Kokumin ed inateven if Japan should not join the alliance it would bbe impossible to hope for a volte-face in British policy in the Far Bast. Japan, the newspaper stated, should Wwead" the right path in the world ley by concluding a military alliance with the Axis even at the cost of saerifleing the Anglo-Japanese Tientsin Japanese Impatient Tientsin, Aug. 10.
Mounting Japanese impatience at the alleged dilatory tactiets employed Britain inthe Anglo-Japanese conversations in Tokyo today flared in the open with a public demand by a spokesman of "the Japhniose. military forees here that the London Government define its attitude at "There are only two courses left for Britain to follow," the spokes-
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