The Archive · 1940

Talks Continue Counter-proposals Said' to

Have Been Submitted

Moscow, Jan. 16.

The Soviet Union presented the Jazanese Ambassador to Moscow its counter-proposals for a Russo-Japanese trade treaty during the second trade conference between the two countries here in less than a week.

The draft of the Soviet counterproposals were handed to the Japan-2se Ambassador, Mr. Shigenori Togo, by the Soviet Commissar for Foreign Trade, M. Anastas Mikoyan.. Mr. Shiko Matsushima, Japanese Minister to Sweden who has been aiding Mr. Togo in the negotiations, also was present at the conference.

The Japanese were understood to have promised to forward the Russian proposals to Tokyo. The Russian draft of the projected treaty was drawn up after the Japanese had presented the Soviet Foreign Commissar, M. Viats|cheslav Molotov, with the Japanese proposals last week.—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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