Amoy, June 20.
Japan's attitude in forthcoming negotiations for a revision of the status of the International Settlement of Amoy in Kulangsu will be such as not to permit "any backing down," Mr. Goro Uchida, Japanese Consuľ-General, told newspapermen here yesterday following his return from a hurried 10-day trip to Tokyo.
The negotiations, he said, would be resumed at his initiative "at some propitious moment."
Mr. Uchida asserted that he had obtained the approval of the Tokyo Government regarding future measures to be adopted in the Kulangsu question.
Japan, Mr. Uchida continued, was seeking to bring the Settlement authorities to realize that she could not tolerate the international area becoming a base of antitJapanese operations or to serve as an obstacle to the creation of a new order in East Asia.
"I believe that there will be no difficulty in realizing our objective as soon as the Kulangsu Municipal Council and the authorities of the various interested Powers revise their conception of the situation in East Asia," he stated.
If foreign Powers did not correctly estimate the new conditions which had developed in the Far East since the start of the hostilities, prosperity never would return to Kulangsu and the International Settlement would face a" dangerous situation." Mr. Uchida stated.
The line of action which he would follow was the "last line from which he could not budge an inch," in accordance with the firm decision of the Japanese Government. he declared.—Domei.
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