Paris, Feb. 17. The British offer of mediation in today.
French circles entirely approved the British action and wished it every Tokyo, Feb. 17.
Shigenori Togo, the Japanese Ambassador in Moscow, who was instructed by Mr. Hac hiro Arita, the Foreign Minister, yesterday to press the Soviet Government to resume fishery negotiations, will tell the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Maxim Litvinoff, about Japan's position, according to the "Asahi Shimbun".
Mr: Togo, the paper: says, will most likely draw the attention of M. Litvinoff to the only alternative left Japan to exercise her treaty rights, namely, "free fishing," unless the Soviet Government their drive for the capture of which would thus remain the unconquered capital. Gen. Franco's views on an amnesty are not known,—Havas. reconsiders its attitude.
The "Asahi Shimbun" points out that the only way to save the situation consists of the conclusion of a fishery modus vivendi between Japan and the Soviet Ni inion on the basis of maintenance of the status quo, pending conclusion of a formal fishery convention.
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