He declared that in the event of a rupture of present parleys upon the fisheries, and if Japanese fishermen ventured into Soviet waters and an incident resulted, he feared that "It would be difficult to localize such an incident." It would be difficult, he added, to avoid having such an affair take on the gravest importance.
Informed political quarters, commenting on these mutual threats, declared, however, that both diplomats bad nevertheless agreed upon the necessity of hastening negotiations for settlement, These negotiations have een suspended on several occasions in the past, they pointed out.—Havas,
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