The Archive · 1940

Terms of Settlement

Tokyo, Feb. 4.

Mr. Hachiro Arita, Foreign Minister, will officially announce the partial settlement of the Asama Maru incident in the Diet on Tuedsay, it was learned here today.

The terms of the settlement, which are understood to comprise four points, including the surrender by the British Government to Japan of a part of the detained Germans, will be announced simultaneously in London and in Tokyo tomorrow afternoon, instead of today as originally scheduled.

Final touches to the agreement, reached on Friday between Sir Robert Craigie, British Ambassador, and Mr. Masayuki Tani, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, were put today in a 50-minute interview between Mr. Tani and Mr. J. L

Dodds, Counsellor of the British Embassy—Domei.

French Ambassador Leaves Moscow Moscow, Feb. 3.

M. Paul-Emile Naggiar, French Ambassador to Moscow, left the Russian capital this evening for an indeterminate stay in Paris. He was accompanied to the station by the personnel of the French Embassy, the Charge d'Affaires of Great Britain, and representatives of all tie other Embassies in Moscow.—Havas.

Belgrade, Feb. 4: 'ENSION relaxed here last night after it was reported Bulgaria gave assurances to the Balkan Entente conference that she would not present her demands against Rumania for Dobrudja during the European war, leaving the question to be settled after the war at the peace conference.

The reported Bulgarian assurance was regarded as a victory for the Allies, who have worked through M. Sukru Sarajoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister, to eliminate the reasons for any drastic Rumanian swing toward Germany, either economic or otherwise.

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