Washington, Nov. 19.
Tokyo's reply to the American note arrived by coincidence with the latest protest of American interests in China. This protest was delivered iby the Tientsin Chamber of Commerce, and contained lengthy citations of damages and discriminations against Americans and culminated with a recommendation that the United States adopt retaliatory measures.
Mr. Hull is still preoccupied with the visit of Mr. William Lyon Mackkenzie King, Canadian Premier, and other concluding aspects of the Anglo-American and American-Canadian trade agreements, and thus far has lacked opportunity for a full study of Japan's reply.
High officials, however, acting in an unofficial capacity, called attention to Japan's failure to explain adequarely why Japanese business and commercial interests are operating without damage in the so-called "danger zones" and yet foreigners must be excluded,
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