Paris, Jan. 18, Drafied along lines similar to the recent British and United States Notes, a French Note was forwarded today'to the Japanese Government.
Following upon the: November 3 and December 22 statements made by the former Premier of Japan, Prince Ayamaro Konoye, the French Note, it-was understood, refuses to recon: fhize any unilateral. denunciation of the Nine-Power Treaty, It emphasized, "the new order" which Japan intends. to establish in China mot consonant with that Treaty. And it maintains all French rights in China which might be affected by 'The French Government thereby definitely aligned their attitude, with Britain's and the United States', authoritative politicians commented this evening. 'The three countries, they said, having common interests in the Far' East, consulted each other after Promiet' Konoye made his fame declarations. Although they mi parallel demarches, it would be "too Much to speak of a common front," iis added.
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