Tokyo, San 12 If the worst situation should develop following expiration of the trade treaty with America on January 20 there was a good possibility that Japan could continue to receive all, serap tron, raw cotton and other vital products "from America by. transshipment through Mexico, according information received yesterday by the Osaka branch of the Commerce and Industry Ministry's Trade Bourd, Commenting on the reports, the "Nikkon Kogyo" ("Industrial Dall said; "The Information must be te-assuring at atime when the rear intention of the United States 1s. In doubt."
Mr, Herbert Beruiller, chief of the research department of the Trade Bank of Mexico, was credited with suggesting to the Osaka trade agency that Mexico might not be averse to assuming the role of go-between for American and Japanese commerce. According to the reports, the oficial in Mexico said there possibly would be u few minor difficulties in the way of such a plan but he expressed the lew that these could be overcome without much trouble—Domel.
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